Jerry Z. Muller

@jerryzmuller

Professor of History, Catholic University of America: independent minded. New book: The Tyranny of Metrics, published by Princeton UP, but other interests too.

leighbureau.com/speaker/jmuller
Joined December 2014
47 Photos and videos Photos and videos

Tweets

You blocked @jerryzmuller

Are you sure you want to view these Tweets? Viewing Tweets won't unblock @jerryzmuller

  1. 18 hours ago

    Ideological activism in the American Philosophical Association is creating demand for an alternative.

    1 reply 2 likes
    Undo
  2. Oct 11

    Ignore the deliberately offputting title. The substance of the piece is about policy wonks developing proposals oriented to the public good, ideas that depart from the preferences of the current GOP donor class.

    Undo
  3. Oct 8

    My obituary for Walter Laqueur, in The Guardian.

    2 retweets 6 likes
    Undo
  4. Oct 6

    Monday November 5, at Notre Dame.

    Undo
  5. Oct 5

    "We particularly welcome candidates with research areas that include—but are not limited to—sexuality studies and critical race theory, settler colonialism and indigenous studies, imperialisms, and postcolonial studies."

    4 retweets 8 likes
    Undo
  6. Oct 5

    Diminishing marginal utility illustrated.

    40 Percent of Marriages in Damascus Are for Men Taking a Second Wife says one judge - but less than 1% are for a third wife. via
    4 retweets 3 likes
    Undo
  7. Retweeted
    Oct 5

    As a competent worker will be promoted into incompetence, so a valuable method or technique will infiltrate disciplines in which it is useless or harmful.

    2 replies 12 retweets 39 likes
    Undo
  8. Retweeted
    Aug 23

    A really great new piece by Lant Pritchett on the perils of relying on the thin metrics of dashboards in education. Echoes of 's Tyranny of Metrics.

    7 retweets 11 likes
    Undo
  9. Oct 3

    Who would have thought?

    Adolescent exposure to books boosts cognitive, numerical, and problem-solving skills in the long term.
    1 like
    Undo
  10. Oct 3

    On metrics and "buy-in": from my interview with Stacey Barr.

    2 likes
    Undo
  11. Oct 3

    Thread. The re-written grant proposal is especially telling.

    Like most evidence of radical leftist corrupt intolerance in academia, this will be dismissed as a small number of anecdotes. Nothing to see here. I can see it now, "This is not a large scale carefully controlled experiment, everyone move along." Thread
    Show this thread
    5 likes
    Undo
  12. Oct 1

    It seems that some of this study's findings about changing neighborhoods are at odds with the much-heralded Chetty et al study released today. Its methods too: current ethnography vs. backward looking statistical analysis. My guess is that this method is more revealing.

    Our new study: What people think poor neighborhoods look like stems from a small number of increasingly unique cities---in which major sociology departments training ethnographers happen to be located.
    1 reply 2 likes
    Undo
  13. Retweeted
    Sep 30

    Now out in ! Similar empirics to my book Navigation by Judgment, but shorter, and framed differently (and with a tighter focus on econometrics). Maybe easier for syllabi etc.? IO link gated but author's final version ungated here:

    Does a stringent managerial control over Int' Devt Orgs (IDOs) lead to their better performance? Find out more at IO : "When Reporting Undermines Performance" by
    16 retweets 28 likes
    Undo
  14. Retweeted
    Sep 30

    “Not to be overly dramatic, but in some ways [p-hacking] throws into question the very statistical basis of what we’re reading as science journalists and as the public,” our tells of .

    2 replies 32 retweets 52 likes
    Undo
  15. Sep 30

    We need a Presumptively Disadvantaged Point Score

    Great question. We need a new policy.
    1 like
    Undo
  16. Sep 29

    Extensive review (in French) of The Tyranny of Metrics, now up on Le Monde blog.

    2 likes
    Undo
  17. Retweeted
    Sep 29

    Does pay for performance policy cost human lives?

    1/2 Death, Readmissions, and Getting Policy Right:
    Show this thread
    1 retweet
    Undo
  18. Sep 29

    1 retweet
    Show this thread
    Show this thread
    Undo
  19. Sep 29

    "sport may also be added to the list. Metrics may be used (and abused) in sport to convey particular narratives and recommendations and should be used as a complement - not a substitute for- judgements based on experience and expertise." from...

    1 reply 2 likes
    Show this thread
    Show this thread
    Undo
  20. Sep 29

    "Recently, Jerry Muller published a book entitled “Tyranny of the Metrics” which highlights the dangers associated with the quantification of performance metrics in education, medicine, business and finance, government, the police and military...

    1 reply 1 retweet 4 likes
    Show this thread
    Show this thread
    Undo

@jerryzmuller hasn't Tweeted yet.

Loading seems to be taking a while.

Twitter may be over capacity or experiencing a momentary hiccup. Try again or visit Twitter Status for more information.

    You may also like

    ·