RE: What are Laws of Nature?
March 21, 2022 at 4:09 pm
(This post was last modified: March 21, 2022 at 4:17 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
The idea is, as it's been put - different people ask different questions (different people have different interests, too, fwiw). To be fair, it's not so much that the methodology is gender biased - that "science is gender biased" - but that science, being a product of people and societies possessing biases and biases influencing circumstance...that there are fewer female, or minority, or poor questioners - in the west, for example.
That's the reason that so much basic research is still on the table in food production. The extension system had a heavy bias toward capital intensive production. As a product of that, we know a hell of alot about how to run a quarter million dollar farm for minimum wage - but far less of an idea how to run a 25k farm for a living wage...and as a product of that, the rural poor will remain the rural poor indefinitely. There's some lit on how to properly exploit a captive labor force in labor intensive export models, sure...but you can see how that gives us the same outcome. Beyond that..(when they aren't the same)....it's just a collection of ad hoc traditional methods.
Feeds back into itself, too. Making it so that there's more opportunity to do practical research and field demos on and for that wealthier producing demographic.
That's the reason that so much basic research is still on the table in food production. The extension system had a heavy bias toward capital intensive production. As a product of that, we know a hell of alot about how to run a quarter million dollar farm for minimum wage - but far less of an idea how to run a 25k farm for a living wage...and as a product of that, the rural poor will remain the rural poor indefinitely. There's some lit on how to properly exploit a captive labor force in labor intensive export models, sure...but you can see how that gives us the same outcome. Beyond that..(when they aren't the same)....it's just a collection of ad hoc traditional methods.
Feeds back into itself, too. Making it so that there's more opportunity to do practical research and field demos on and for that wealthier producing demographic.
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