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>I don't think that the question of whether there is an institutional problem necessitates large numbers of incidence. If an institution has lower number of in
by colllectorof 8y ago
>I don't think that the question of whether there is an institutional problem necessitates large numbers of incidence.
If an institution has lower number of incidents than population average than it's rather ridiculous to claim that it has an "institutional problem" with those incidents.
And I assure you, HR people in any big corporation would laugh at those numbers.
Now, if your argument is that Ph.D. serfdom magnifies the consequences of every incident, than I fully agree. Read my comment below. Rather than instituting "oversight", however, it would be much more rational to end Ph.D. serfdom. It has other negative consequences, which wouldn't be solved by some "supervisor police".
Marvin Minsky and Alan Kay spoke at length about how US academic system today stiffles creativity and long-term research. Seems it wasn't always like that, and the different wasn't in more oversight. Quite the opposite, actually.
>For example, you could say that 99.99% of people don't get murdered, so if the police don't investigate murders, it's no big deal, after all it's just 0.01% of the population.
Beyond certain point adding more police does nothing to curb murder rates. It's not a linear relationship.
- ImaCake 8y ago>If an institution has lower number of incidents than population average than it's rather ridiculous to claim that it has an "institutional problem" with those incidents. You can't draw any conclusions from the data presented in this article. It does not offer a per capita number of events.
- DanBC 8y ago> If an institution has lower number of incidents than population average than it's rather ridiculous to claim that it has an "institutional problem" with those incidents. Doesn't that depend on how they're counting?
- eli_gottlieb 8y ago>Marvin Minsky and Alan Kay spoke at length about how US academic system today stiffles creativity and long-term research. Marvin Minsky? Wow. Could I read that?
- colllectorof 8y agoMinsky: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EI0NXTrS5Pw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EI0NXTrS5Pw Kay just for good measure: https://youtu.be/lVy8n7Q-dmM?t=2613 https://youtu.be/lVy8n7Q-dmM?t=2613 He has a lot of good talks on education.
- Fomite 8y ago"If an institution has lower number of incidents than population average than it's rather ridiculous to claim that it has an "institutional problem" with those incidents. And I assure you, HR people in any big corporation would laugh at those numbers." That might only suggest that other institutions have larger problems.