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I think you're assuming that your personal experience is representative and unbiased. Is there a particular reason you'd consider yourself an expert on "grieva

I think you're assuming that your personal experience is representative and unbiased. Is there a particular reason you'd consider yourself an expert on "grievance studies"? Is there a comprehensive list of areas of study you'd consider members? Could we perhaps figure out what level of knowledge you have in those fields, and with the academics within them?

danieltillett 8y ago
I used to be a STEM academic and so dealt a great deal with university administrators and to a lesser extent academics within the grievance fields. Neither I enjoyed. I also used to sit on the university wide committee that allocated PhD scholarships. Part of our job was to try and work out some sort of ranking of candidates between different fields. This wasn’t too hard for most fields, but I can tell you when we got to the grievance field candidates and their proposed projects we would all scratch our heads. In the end we just set aside a faction of the scholarships for these areas and accepted the ranking the departments provided.
- tomlock 8y ago
  So you sat on a panel with no experts in a particular field, and so deferred to experts from that field, and also had bad experiences with university administrators, and this lead you to believe you were an expert in the field where you deferred away your authority. If there's a good case for being suspect of scientists who claim authoritatively that other disciplines are bad, it is being made by you, right now.
  - danieltillett 8y ago
    No that is totally wrong. It is amazing how you can read something like that into what I wrote.
    - tomlock 8y ago
      What's amazing is that you can scratch your head when confronted by the thesis proposal of someone who just got out of honours/masters in a field but simultaneously anoint yourself an expert in that field.
      - danieltillett 8y ago
        Did you read the word "we" in my comment? I was not alone in being unable to rank these students and I have never anointed myself an expert in these fields.
        tomlock 8y ago
        Oh so multiple people were not experts in the subjects. Cool. Also isn't it strange that while administrations are supposedly stuffed with these "grievance studies" people - not one person on your board was qualified to properly evaluate those fields.
        danieltillett 8y ago
        It is just the nature of university wide committees that you won’t always have experts in every field on the committee. We certainly had people for outside the STEM fields on this committee and they were in no better position than the scientists trying to rank these grievance study students and projects.
        tomlock 8y ago
        So at the time you and your colleagues chose to defer to experts in those fields, but currently you assume you are an expert in the content and character of the fields. What changed?
        danieltillett 8y ago
        Nothing because I am not claiming to be an expert in these fields.

danieltillett 8y ago

I used to be a STEM academic and so dealt a great deal with university administrators and to a lesser extent academics within the grievance fields. Neither I enjoyed. I also used to sit on the university wide committee that allocated PhD scholarships. Part of our job was to try and work out some sort of ranking of candidates between different fields. This wasn’t too hard for most fields, but I can tell you when we got to the grievance field candidates and their proposed projects we would all scratch our heads. In the end we just set aside a faction of the scholarships for these areas and accepted the ranking the departments provided.

tomlock 8y ago
So you sat on a panel with no experts in a particular field, and so deferred to experts from that field, and also had bad experiences with university administrators, and this lead you to believe you were an expert in the field where you deferred away your authority. If there's a good case for being suspect of scientists who claim authoritatively that other disciplines are bad, it is being made by you, right now.
- danieltillett 8y ago
  No that is totally wrong. It is amazing how you can read something like that into what I wrote.
  - tomlock 8y ago
    What's amazing is that you can scratch your head when confronted by the thesis proposal of someone who just got out of honours/masters in a field but simultaneously anoint yourself an expert in that field.
    - danieltillett 8y ago
      Did you read the word "we" in my comment? I was not alone in being unable to rank these students and I have never anointed myself an expert in these fields.
      - tomlock 8y ago
        Oh so multiple people were not experts in the subjects. Cool. Also isn't it strange that while administrations are supposedly stuffed with these "grievance studies" people - not one person on your board was qualified to properly evaluate those fields.
        danieltillett 8y ago
        It is just the nature of university wide committees that you won’t always have experts in every field on the committee. We certainly had people for outside the STEM fields on this committee and they were in no better position than the scientists trying to rank these grievance study students and projects.
        tomlock 8y ago
        So at the time you and your colleagues chose to defer to experts in those fields, but currently you assume you are an expert in the content and character of the fields. What changed?
        danieltillett 8y ago
        Nothing because I am not claiming to be an expert in these fields.