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Chui's avatar

No. I am not a social constructionist. None of that domain will find much purchase with me. Particularly not with 50% of the research and studies that inform it being unreproducible (the hardest-hit domain within the reproducibility crisis).

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Extreme Moderate's avatar

So norms of sexual behavior are the same in Los Angeles and Iran?

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Chui's avatar

A useful exercise might be:

How do you know norms exist?

How do you know what the norms in LA are?

How do you know what the norms are in Iran?

To what degree are the answers based in reproducible research?

If you feel that none of these questions are valid? Please do share how you have come to know what you purport to know.

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Chui's avatar

You would have to establish that they exist at all.

I am not a social constructionist. You can't therefore expect me to engage with an argument that assumes that social constructionism is valid.

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