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Exactly this. You would be surprised how petty and subjective academics are in practice. There is a reason why everything is done through committees in academia
by Cyph0n 10y ago
Exactly this. You would be surprised how petty and subjective academics are in practice. There is a reason why everything is done through committees in academia.
- georgestephanis 10y agoTo be fair, a jury is a committee.
- rhizome 10y agoYou would be surprised how petty and subjective academics are in practice. Sayre's Law[1] was paraphrased by Henry Kissinger as, "Academic politics are so vicious because the stakes are so small." 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sayre's_law https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sayre's_law
- abtinf 10y agoPer the wiki article: > "In any dispute the intensity of feeling is inversely proportional to the value of the issues at stake." I hadn't heard of Sayre's Law. It seems like a much more eloquent expression of the concept of bikeshedding. Edit: I thought about this some more. I think bike shedding and sayre's law are slightly different - Sayre is like the law of gravity, bike shedding is like saying “and this is what gravity actually is caused by”.