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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 administra
by 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 agoNo that is totally wrong. It is amazing how you can read something like that into what I wrote.
- tomlock 8y agoWhat'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 agoDid 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 agoOh 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 agoIt 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 agoSo 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 agoNothing because I am not claiming to be an expert in these fields.
- tomlock 8y agoGreat: > I think you are assuming that the graduates of grevience [sic] studies have some sort of loyalty to their old professors. My personal experience is they don't. Dismissed due to lack of expertise. > They know a degree in some grievance study is not going to help them pay off their massive student loans. Dismissed (and stop listening to so much american commentary, arts degrees don't cost much here).