Re:Throw Out Your Black Plastic Spatula
by kelipso on Thursday October 31, 2024 @04:21PM
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The hucksters would be over represented in the media for obvious reasons, and if you are not an academic, then you would primarily be exposed to academics via the media. Hundreds of thousands of academics doing great work, you only hear from a few dozen of them.
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I was an academic in a past life. I left before I made it a profession, but I spent long enough there to see what I'm talking about. The people with the most successful careers get there by getting press, which doesn't usually correlate with academic rigor.
That said, I grant your broader point about selection bias.