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by 78124781 3y ago
Most depts do have some kind of official review, but it's more of a formality. I think they're also concerned about how students would react if they suggest that academia isn't for them directly. So instead they resort to mor
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by 78124781 3y ago
This. Most grad school classes are poorly taught and the professors indifferent or discouraging to actually helping you learn. PhD students are assumed to be capable of learning these things on their own or already knowing them. If you are
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by 78124781 3y ago
I actually really like the analogy. You are running a "business" of ideas. You are competing against a lot of other very smart people who are also trying to start their own ideas business and competing for a very limited pool of s
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by 78124781 3y ago
I'm not sure the salaries are better. Most R1s are now offering 90-120k starting in my field, but regional teaching Us start around 50-60k, with liberal arts colleges in the 50-80k range. The point about the lack of opportunities for a
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by 78124781 3y ago
Generally, the focus here should be on: 1) Not bombing any classes (i.e. A/A- in all, maybe a B+ in one; a B or below is failing) 2) Doing very good work and trying to write an original paper for professors that you want to work with
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by 78124781 3y ago
"Honestly it really just seems like the world’s PhD programs are designed to ritually haze students and sort them into academic society based on unsustainable and barely acceptable expectations." This is accurate. It's very
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by 78124781 3y ago
Some of the most interesting recent academic work has come out of adversarial collaborations, e.g. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/152910062311631... The list of research projects on this website
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by 78124781 3y ago
I keep seeing people swear by the NY Times' Wirecutter and they do have a much more upfront set of standards for reviewing products, but I've actually been pretty underwhelmed by the recommended buys from them. Still, I respect th
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by 78124781 3y ago
I agree, though the other issue for smaller places is that they are more susceptible to review-bombing by one disgruntled party (do we really need 6 reviews from 6 different people about how the same table had to wait an hour to get the che
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by 78124781 3y ago
The professor who wrote that book, interestingly, ended up being denied tenure and was subsequently unable to get another academic job despite years of trying. Here's a recent podcast with him: https://www.persuasion.communi
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by 78124781 4y ago
All it takes is one or two very angry people to start a mob online and destroy someone's entire career. I'm not surprised that authors, especially in a field as precarious as writing, are more than willing to follow what is deemed
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by 78124781 4y ago
It's not just academia, it's the modern "meritocracy" more broadly. When getting into a campus club at a top college requires four rounds of interviews, you look for easy ways to signal your eliteness and being hip to th
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by 78124781 4y ago
Many codes of conduct and various other speech codes do, in fact, violate freedom of speech and have often been struck down as violations of freedom of expression. Appeals to "courtesy" and "civility" tend to be used sel
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by 78124781 4y ago
And in other contexts, you can imagine supporting the right of Communists to speak and organize even if you find Communism abhorrent and misguided. Note too the benefits of allowing/supporting the right of [insert disliked political gr
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by 78124781 4y ago
1. There are already pretty good definitions out there for speech that rises to the level of "harassment" if it is severe, pervasive, and/or repeated. There are also ways to restrict speech in a content-neutral way (i.e. no b
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by 78124781 4y ago
I once met a local winemaker from a tiny winery in a foreign country who was proud to say that their wine was being served a restaurant in the US. I asked them how much they thought the wine would be priced at given that it was their entry-
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by 78124781 4y ago
I really wonder how much of the suspicion of wine comes from the class-conflict accoutrements and marketing. I used to be a big wine skeptic. It seemed pretentious, overpriced, and boring. The people who liked it were the kind of people I d
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by 78124781 4y ago
I don't think that you are truly "in charge of your own destiny" at many programs. I get the comparison, but it's more like you're a startup in an oversaturated market with funders who have very little invested in y
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by 78124781 4y ago
Wow, Pine Bluff is quite a place to move to out the blue. Still, there's good interstate access and a local state U. Curious why the city is so reluctant to support new businesses. You might try Jonesboro, Fort Smith, or Hot Springs if
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by 78124781 4y ago
Flawed characters are simpler more interesting to read about than people who aren't flawed. Stories of the lives of saints tend to be didactic and boring; those of flawed sinners are much more interesting and varied. See also the Mary&
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by 78124781 4y ago
Don't think this attitude is just limited to STEM though as Gioia implies. Humanities majors have plenty of hubris themselves, though it may have a different moral flavor than in the sciences. Similar career incentives though for sure.
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by 78124781 4y ago
Amazing work from Bret as usual, but very sad that this kind of popular/actually useful history is completely unrewarded in academia. This is far more valuable than whatever top university press book most historians write.
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by 78124781 4y ago
Plus the highest suicide rate in the US by far comes from white men: https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/71/wr/mm7108a7.htm And women not only outnumber men in college, but that divide is increasing rapidly
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by 78124781 4y ago
I would recommend taking a moment to read the actual articles instead of dismissing the sources offhand. The City Journal article has links to the actual documents in question. The Washington Examiner has screenshots of the actual training.
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by 78124781 4y ago
What about reading black nationalists? I think there's plenty of value in reading the Black Panthers' and Nation of Islam's writings despite their often-abhorrent views. Same with the "Weather Underground" manifesto
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by 78124781 4y ago
Exactly. This is something that a lot of comments seem to be missing about this article and Mill's larger point. Free speech, as Mill views it, always helps individuals better understand why they hold views in the first place as well
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Not allowing college professors to choose what readings they want to assign in class is, in fact, stifling free speech. The essay is advocating against "forced" speech in terms of only allowing consideration of one point of view a
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by 78124781 4y ago
If I'm reading the standings correctly, they are competing as a team from a single HS while most of the others are all-star teams composed of students from multiple different HSes in a state or area? And they finished higher than noted