Venkatesh Rao@vgr·Nov 13, 2015Replying to @ctbeiser@ctbeiser @KevinSimler Preference falsification is not the same thing as exercised power or complete control.1
kevin simler@kevinsimler·Nov 13, 2015Replying to @vgr@vgr @ctbeiser I don't understand why language enforcement doesn't scale. What happened to Tim Hunt?1
Venkatesh Rao@vgr·Nov 13, 2015Replying to @kevinsimler@KevinSimler @ctbeiser They got him out of UCL, sentiment swung in his favor, UCL lost more brand equity than Tim Hunt himself. Pyrrhic.21
Venkatesh Rao@vgr·Nov 13, 2015Replying to @ctbeiser@ctbeiser @KevinSimler I certainly think that woman who originally misreported conversation is now a pariah outside her small world11
kevin simler@kevinsimler·Nov 13, 2015Replying to @vgr@vgr @ctbeiser This is the heart of it right here, for me. Does she lose because she's a pariah to the rest of the world? Or does her...1
kevin simler@kevinsimler·Nov 13, 2015Replying to @kevinsimler@vgr @ctbeiser small world gain enough status (carrying her, within that world) to make up for it?2
Venkatesh Rao@vgr·Nov 13, 2015Replying to @kevinsimler@KevinSimler @ctbeiser No, and this is why liberal arts/humanities overall have been steadily losing power to STEM for 50 years.22
Venkatesh Rao@vgrReplying to @ctbeiser@ctbeiser @KevinSimler In university politics, they are the poor departments11:24 PM · Nov 13, 2015