ChatGPT on sociology’s two-discipline problem

Someone said that to make these AI chatbots work you need to coach and prod them, and edit the results, so it still requires expertise to make them useful. I wouldn't say this output qualifies as useful, but it's true it takes some tinkering to get anything readable. In this example, I said to ChatGPT:…

Survivor bias and the 92% of Southern Black men who support spanking

The people who think it helps children because it helped them are not alone among the survivors of difficult childhoods. But that doesn't mean they're right.

Why do anti-gay people (maybe, possibly) beat their children?

The other day, Mark Regnerus (of Regnerus study fame) speculated in a blog post that pornography, with its "veritable fire-hose dousing of sex-act diversity," might be increasing support for gay marriage: In the end, contrary to what we might wish to think, young adult men’s support for redefining marriage may not be entirely the product…