Economist on "Who is more powerful in hiring, Department head, Search...
Depends on who is determined to be the most manipulative.
View ArticleEconomist on "Life at a quantitative hedge fund...?"
Yep, no fresh phd become a portfolio manager. But Space, a question: Hedge funds rarely hire fresh PhDs in general. They usually hire someone who has been out there working for a few years. My...
View ArticleEconomist on "Lower-ranked department = better life"
If you don't make tenure at the crappy dept., you are screwed. If you don't make tenure at Harvard, you will get tenure at the crappy dept.
View ArticleEconomist on "Not reimbursed for flight?"
I think I'd better stay to see what insular garbage he's exposed to.Yep, we're pretty f**ked up and you're stuck with us unless your boyfriend does a**l then dump.
View ArticleEconomist on "Citation counts: should they be divided by number of authors?...
For tenure? NO For rankings? Maybe, but I would divide by (n)^1/2, n sounds way too punishing
View ArticleEconomist on "Citation counts: should they be divided by number of authors?...
Pubs are not discounted by number of authors for tenure decisions anywhere.Of course they are. You living in some dreamworlds?
View ArticleEconomist on "Citation counts: should they be divided by number of authors?...
For tenure? NO For rankings? Maybe, but I would divide by (n)^1/2, n sounds way too punishingYou would??? Great, why don't we all just make up our own arbitrary bulls**t rules.
View ArticleEconomist on "Citation counts: should they be divided by number of authors?...
h-indexes need to be divided by years since person finished grad school.The repec ranking by graduation cohort is a good metric for that. http://ideas.repec.org/top/top.cohorts.html
View ArticleEconomist on "This job market candidate is a total hack"
He actually had a flyout at my dept
View ArticleEconomist on "Not reimbursed for flight?"
Everybody is missing the point. We are not doctors or lawyers. We are PhDs. We are an extremely limited elite and people will bend over to try and get us. What applies to us applies to other PhDs that...
View ArticleEconomist on "Citation counts: should they be divided by number of authors?...
The main goal is to advance the research in economics, not to see how good one individual is. Good science nowadays is always done in groups. I don't understand why so many people in econ insist in...
View ArticleEconomist on "This job market candidate is a total hack"
He does look quite hot.So rugged.
View ArticleEconomist on "Sabotaging a job offer?"
I know a case of an ex econ couple. Female broke up, married another person from the field and than mysteriously got a great job offer at the institution of the new husband.
View ArticleEconomist on "Sabotaging a job offer?"
But still: Get over it. You are not helping yourself.
View ArticleEconomist on "Sabotaging a job offer?"
If you are talking about a professional misconduct that you have concrete evidence of, it is called whistle-blowing not sabotaging. If you are talking about a personal misbehavior, no matter how bad it...
View ArticleEconomist on "Giving up tenure?"
After 45, academia gets kind of boring if you don't become a star.
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