5 ms·
Yeah, he likes to rub it in apparently. Imagine a Professor at Podunk State College reading this. Even the list of prizes this dude didn't get is getting more a
by KKKKkkkk1 11y ago
Yeah, he likes to rub it in apparently. Imagine a Professor at Podunk State College reading this. Even the list of prizes this dude didn't get is getting more attention than my lifetime of research accomplishments. American academia has a winner-takes-all culture that loves to brag how meritocratic it is, and unlike business, it never gets called for it.
- Balgair 11y agoI really don't think that was his intentions. But you point still stands. The FailCV of all the people that did not get his job would also be great to look at and compare to. Also, notice the FailCVs of other people that he links to. Some of those FailCvs (or the sections of them) are very very short. Likely that is due to not wanting to spend time on something that is painful like this, or that this just takes too much time for a side project. Still, are the FailCVs of successful people shorter in general, accounting for their successes? (IE you don't apply for as many jobs when you have one). Are the successful actually more successful when controlling for the stochastic nature of awards?
- deleted 11y ago[deleted]
- dang 11y agoPlease don't be so uncharitable in HN comments. Finding a maximally cynical interpretation may be briefly gratifying, but it damages the culture we're trying for here. A less uncharitable comment might have included more about your own experiences and feelings and omitted the strong claim about someone else's motivations. We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11584417 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11584417 and marked it off-topic.
- deleted 11y ago[deleted]
- deleted 11y ago[deleted]