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Queensland University of Technology defends removing 'merit' from hiring policy
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EEVblog:

--- Quote from: CatalinaWOW on November 28, 2023, 03:21:31 am ---An interesting side effect of this may be a dramatic reduction in production of PhDs.  Even in the easiest of fields there is a fair amount of pain in achieving this degree, and if it is not valued why would anyone pursue it?
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Because many people already have no idea about practicality, hence getting PhD's in gender studies etc.
https://arts.unimelb.edu.au/asia-institute/discipline-areas/gender-studies
https://www.phdportal.com/search/phd/gender-sexuality-studies

EDIT:
A 6 year PhD in Anthropology and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at no less than Yale anyone?
https://anthropology.yale.edu/academics/graduate-programs/combined-phd-anthropology-wgss
Bud:
the Pareto rule is about to change from "20% people doing 80% work" to "5% people doing 95% work."  :-X
magic:
It might be a symptom of a more general trend of academia going downhill.

Of the people I remember from my year, most of the brightest went for commercial careers because that's where real R&D happens and where the money is, while the "upper-mediocre" were left behind to attempt PhD. I remember two specific individuals who wanted to stay at the university simply because they had not a faintest clue what to do with their lives otherwise or felt not good enough for "real" work (one of them thankfully wasn't good enough for PhD either, the other got it after years of nonsense "research" no one will ever care about).

If computer science faculties become a government sponsored nursery for high functioning adult autists, I don't even want to think what happens in those "social studies" :scared:
SiliconWizard:

--- Quote from: EEVblog on November 28, 2023, 03:58:21 am ---
--- Quote from: SiliconWizard on November 28, 2023, 02:13:45 am ---Yes, let's remove any "friction", as they say.

I read the thing and am unable to say what exactly that means though. I see a lot of buzzwords, but what exactly will they do?

Just a note about this one: 'We don't want everybody to look the same'. While I still don't quite know what they mean by removing "merit" here, denying the concept of merit usually leads to exactly that though, making everyone precisely look more the same. Buggers.

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They mean "white men". I"m not kiding, that's what they really mean.

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Yeah, I know, that's the whole current "woke" trend that is going on. But what I was pointing out is that they never really say what they intend to do, it's always fuzzy with a lot of empty words, that are supposed to instantly resonate with the "initiated", while leaving everyone else either annoyed or in a state of denial.

The war on "merit" is not too surprising, even if it's just one angle of attack here among many. The "woke" movement is some kind of (at least in inspiration) neo-marxist movement and for neo-marxists, merit is one of the values to destroy.
magic:

--- Quote from: SiliconWizard on November 28, 2023, 07:14:51 am ---The war on "merit" is not too surprising, even if it's just one angle of attack here among many. The "woke" movement is some kind of (at least in inspiration) neo-marxist movement and for neo-marxists, merit is one of the values to destroy.
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American food isn't real food.
American boobs aren't real boobs.
American marxists aren't real marxists ;D

AFAIK actual commies never used gender or ethnic quotas and were opposed to feminism and other identity politics. Their position was that people are equal and any differences that may be observed today are caused by social dynamics of power and money, which dynamics communism claimed to eliminate. Infamous kleptocracy aside, hiring decisions were officially to be based on suitability for the job. As they had to be, for communism to have any chance of progressing and fighting the global evil of capitalism and imperialism.

Anti-merit is an American movement trying to explain inconvenient statistics for disgruntled liberals who realized that decades of state-level cult of liberalism and elimination of every form of genuine systemic inequality still didn't make the statistics go away completely, as their religion appeared to promise. It's also backed by the American conviction that they are at the top of the global food chain and will stay there forever no matter how hard they shoot their foot. Americans would make actual idealistic communists cringe.

In short, death to America, inshallah :-DD
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