Do you think tenure selects for professors who are more likely to not take risks? @ThaddeusRussell has mentioned this
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Mostly tenure selects for capability and productivity. But it can also select against risk taking, IMHO.
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I agree that it does select for risk aversion, but I have trouble understanding why it does. Is it that the process of getting tenure filters out the the risk-takers, and selects for the risk-averse? Why don't we see more tenured professors using their 'immunity'?
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I'm going to write something on this....
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Maybe something to do w all the relationships built getting tenure? Tenure makes it so you can take research risk. But you might lose those professional friendships you built ovet 6 yrs of pre tenure? Just brainstorming here
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Correct. Funding is tightly coupled to those “friends”. Lose those friends by nonconforming, and you lose funding. For tenured academics, funding is their sole identity.
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That's a good pt. I hadn't thought about funding. I was thinking "people want to be liked & want to get invited to dinner parties, etc." If people make friends at work, they don't want to upset those friends by doing controversial research (this is all a theory & I might be wrong
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what is the name of the photo on the left?
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I still would really like to know. I did reverse image search in google with 0 results.
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Cheers! The armchair sleuthing continues,
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It is from "Symbolica Dianae Ephesiae statua" (1688) by Claude-François Menestrier (1631–1705). You can find it on page 39 here: https://archive.org/details/symbolicadianaee00mene …
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Shouldn’t tenure give you freedom to disagree with the NPC?
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It's like with money: billionaires are some of the biggest conformists around.
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I’d say being R is the prerequisite to getting tenure, akshewly.
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I don’t understand, don’t the profs look like the guy on the right in order to get tenure in the first place?
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Savage, but true.
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The New York Times recently declared this meme unambiguously "far right," which is a funny way of saying "really close to home."
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Is the point that they become a standardized cog in a machine, or that they fade away as they "retire on the job"? I've heard both comments over the years.
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Save yourself Geoffrey!!!
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