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Cinder
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One thing that always fascinates me about almost any non-Nordic (and thus neoliberal) country, is that people are terrified of stating demands in work interviews etc. "But what if I come across as wanting something from them?!" That's, uh, the point...
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Francis Jervis
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This kind of discussion only happens in a broken system. "Will I be punished for asking if my advisor will do her job, because her refusal to work is affecting my mental health?" Don't do grad school, kids. Poster is lucky their "personal" (non-thesis) work even gets looked at. twitter.com/AcademicChatte…
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Francis Jervis
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Yeah, but this phenomenon is 1: worse in academia 2: in academia, worst in PhD programs. If you behaved like this in Silicon Valley, and I mean as a venture capitalist or CEO, you'd be shunned.
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Cinder
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Yeah. The protective force of the academy is really something. I was very impressed when one of our professors in the first year had made it a point to have the course require us to buy four of his textbooks. On topics that have ample excellent sources, like statistics.
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Cinder
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Found it interesting that it was completely legal and above board for him to demand the right to make massive surplus income off the class. No conflict of interest there...
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Cinder
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All of which was healthily compounded by his fundamentally awful grasp of statistics, so bad that even I could catch him in errors instantly. This is not a sign of a healthy system. And this was in Norway, where I am given to understanding regulations are relatively strict.
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Cinder
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I don't know. This lecture was the moment I decided I would not enroll for another semester. Never bought his book. Never went to another lecture. Always meant to study engineering, not psych, but for Reasons it didn't end up happening. So I became a dropout.
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Cinder
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I distinctly remember him arguing that cohort-sizes of 50-or-so were totally acceptable for making general replicable observations about the population. Aged well, that did.
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