Posted on 02/14/2019 7:08:49 AM PST by reaganaut1
yeah I know I have worked in academia before.
Its done because its the easiest metric to colelct and the easiest for a lawyer to define when the inevitable bias law suit occurs.
Is it in anyway effective HELL NO!
I see the same thing in government & in industry for the same reasons.
Did the researchers do anything wrong? Yes. Dr. Boghossian should have waited until he had tenure to publish this. It might not be perfect protection but it would make it a lot harder for Portland State to take action against him without lots of lawsuits that he now has a better chance of winning.
You see it in healthcare too.
“I see the same thing in government”
Yes...the metric that the media use to measure the “productivity” of Congress is the number of new laws passed. That has to be the flat-out stupidest measurement of output ever conceived. Every law diminishes our freedom, imposes new regulations on us, creates newly defined crimes, or spends OUR money that they don’t have.
Better metrics would be how FEW days the congress critters spend in Washington, how FEW dollars they spend, how many laws they REPEAL, how many lobbyists they TURNED DOWN, and how much campaign contribution money they RETURNED to donors.
sorry fumble fingered today
“..colelct and the easiest for a lawyer to define ...”
should be
...collect and the easiest for a lawyer to defend...
not surprised!
Its everywhere!
Unfortunately the voters encourage that!
Most think a busybody in the legislature (city, county, state & federal) is great.
Haha I knew what you meant!
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