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that author’s problem was that they had been a postdoc for 23 years. That duration alone raises fatal red flags.
by hprotagonist 8y ago
that author’s problem was that they had been a postdoc for 23 years. That duration alone raises fatal red flags.
- konschubert 8y agoIt's possible you're right, but that's not what people were saying IIRC.
- throwawaymath 8y agoThat's exactly what they were saying. Go read the thread again. They were being prescriptive of academic careers, not descriptive of the author's inherent merit as a researcher.
- hprotagonist 8y agoand to recurse a layer, i’m being descriptive of the prescriptivists that i know to exist and i easily believe did that guy in.