tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post8356836112557959014..comments2024-03-29T04:06:37.402-07:00Comments on Had Enough Therapy?: The Latest, Greatest Academic HoaxStuart Schneidermanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12784043736879991769noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-41348636992030335242018-10-08T04:07:50.267-07:002018-10-08T04:07:50.267-07:00Mathematics, Philosophy and English literature gra...Mathematics, Philosophy and English literature grad students against for-profit academic journals certainly is an unfair fight. And yet what do you do with a world where there are perhaps more papers written than even read, where the ability to churn out paper enables your long and hopeful tenure? So there's lots of potential bad incentives.<br /><br />Canadian Psychologist Jordan also frequently speaks against the humanities. He says a good journal should reject 90% of papers submitted.<br />https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UI1QEGKNMuQ (Bite-sized Philosophy) 80% of Humanities Papers aren't Cited Once<br /><br />At least in the hard sciences there's an incentive to try to prove a model or theory wrong, while I have no idea how to evaluate ideologies that arise in "X studies" where scholars try to place interpretations on culture and the living world. I'm content to have it a war of opinions, but of course the most compelling voices might just be the most clever, the ones most able to reduce reality to a model that filters out everything that doesn't fit.<br />Ares Olympushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09726811306826601686noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-87556597375292927392018-10-07T18:01:28.155-07:002018-10-07T18:01:28.155-07:00The humanities are lost. Get over it.
STEM, man (...The humanities are lost. Get over it.<br /><br />STEM, man (no pun intended) the barricades.Dr. Irredeemable Dregnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-8607554240178938632018-10-07T16:31:31.268-07:002018-10-07T16:31:31.268-07:00Bafflegab Uber ALLES!!!!!Bafflegab Uber ALLES!!!!!Sam L.https://www.blogger.com/profile/00996809377798862214noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-38403259487766719372018-10-07T08:45:59.945-07:002018-10-07T08:45:59.945-07:00"cult followers bowing down to serious thinke..."cult followers bowing down to serious thinkers who had been tricked into promoting intellectual poisons." The writer Andre Maurois observed that people who are intelligent, but not in any way creative, tend to be enthusiastic adopters of intellectual systems created by others, and to apply those systems more rigidly than did their originators.David Fosterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15464681514800720063noreply@blogger.com