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Re:Is Social Psychology Biased Against Republicans? by b_emery on Friday October 31, 2014 @01:17PM (#8539879)
If people in academia were that driven by money, they wouldn't be in academia.
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Re:Is Social Psychology Biased Against Republicans? by omg2k on Friday October 31, 2014 @01:21PM (#8539913)
People in academia are absolutely driven by money: they need funding to purchase equipment, hire grad students, and pay their salary. Also, whether or not to grant tenure is judged (in part) by how much grant money an assistant professor has brought into the university.
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Re:Is Social Psychology Biased Against Republicans? by Florin_Andrei on Friday October 31, 2014 @01:32PM (#8539968)
Yep. Also, beggars too are absolutely driven by money: it prevents them from starving.
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Re:Is Social Psychology Biased Against Republicans? by muuh-gnu on Friday October 31, 2014 @01:20PM (#8539907)
They _are_ driven by the money that is necessary to finance academia.

They wouldnt be in academia if adacemia had to actually earn the money it needs to exist.

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