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Larry Summers would publish that paper. What about all those researchers who already have tenure? There are plenty of academics who are willing to challenge t
by ohashi 17y ago
Larry Summers would publish that paper. What about all those researchers who already have tenure? There are plenty of academics who are willing to challenge the status quo on thinking if they believe they found evidence to the contrary. It would then be their duty to explain why something like that might happen. In your example perhaps it could be associated with a white people generally still having more opportunities throughout their lives in education (better schools on average), job experience (better jobs on average) and perhaps other factors. They could even spin that into people aren't being given an equal chance based on race and there is lasting effects throughout people's lifetime. The RESULT is the same: people hire more white people in blind tests, but the call for action is different.
- patio11 17y agoLarry Summers as in "forced out of Harvard with the precipitating event being that he suggested there might be an outside possibility that differences in female participation in science are caused by differences in female's motivation to pursue science" Larry Summers? He would not be the first example I'd bring up in defense of the academy's willingness and ability to tolerate heretics. He had tenure, he has status, he was the flipping President of Harvard, he had just about everything going for him an academic possibly could. And that still didn't save his job when he said something the academy didn't like.
- ohashi 17y agoI thought about not writing that but decided it would probably be good bait to see if you were going to actually look at the rest or not and actually comment on substance. You make it sound like he lost his status and his job. He simply got a different position at Harvard and works with Obama, real step down.
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