Source: Astral Codex Ten
“I saw many scientists complain that the projects from their universities that made Cruz’s list were unrelated to wokeness. This seemed like a surprising failure mode, so I decided to investigate. The Commerce Department provided a link to their database, so I downloaded it, chose a random 100 grants, read the abstracts, and rated them either woke, not woke, or borderline. Of the hundred: 40% were woke … 20% were borderline … 40% weren’t woke … This is obviously in some sense a subjective determination, but most cases weren’t close — I think any good-faith examination would turn up similar numbers. Why would a list of woke grants have so many non-woke grants in it? After reading the hundred abstracts, I found a clear answer: people inserted a meaningless sentence saying ‘this could help women and minorities’ into unrelated grants, probably in the hopes of getting points with some automated filter.” (02/13/25)
https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/only-about-40-of-the-cruz-woke-science