tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26951738.post5724826447619848072..comments2024-03-28T19:14:33.619-07:00Comments on The Splintered Mind: How to Get a Big Head in AcademiaEric Schwitzgebelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11541402189204286449noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26951738.post-79975291699483678202010-09-23T18:39:35.683-07:002010-09-23T18:39:35.683-07:00Surely the Bangles are more important than, say, e...Surely the Bangles are more important than, say, endurantism or perdurantism?Tony Dardishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16135113385974275241noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26951738.post-56860159177814709182010-09-21T17:05:34.757-07:002010-09-21T17:05:34.757-07:00[la la la] I'm not listening [la la la][la la la] I'm not listening [la la la]Eric Schwitzgebelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11541402189204286449noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26951738.post-43921554773315630872010-09-21T11:01:56.216-07:002010-09-21T11:01:56.216-07:00There's a step zero, which involves a subtle p...There's a step zero, which involves a subtle process in graduate school of becoming anointed by your advisors as just the right sort of person... but you probably don't want to hear about it.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26951738.post-5891568570915066302010-09-21T10:40:33.009-07:002010-09-21T10:40:33.009-07:00Yes and yes. I suspect the informational/cognitiv...Yes and yes. I suspect the informational/cognitive biases may be especially amplified for research-oriented professors, but the phenomenon is quite general.Eric Schwitzgebelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11541402189204286449noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26951738.post-9936816370817940732010-09-20T21:40:41.896-07:002010-09-20T21:40:41.896-07:00You don't even need to devote your career to i...You don't even need to devote your career to it - the cognitive biases start much earlier than that. You realise you really like something, for example, The Bangles. So, you read a lot about The Bangles. You meet quite a few other people who are interested in The Bangles, and unsurprisingly you get on, so you start to spend a lot of time with them. Suddenly, The Bangles seem very very important indeed.<br /><br />(insert joke here about how this explains why people waste their time studying obscure philosophical subdiscipline XYZ)dioscurihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10059540824863955645noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26951738.post-6825973582296048352010-09-20T11:44:27.474-07:002010-09-20T11:44:27.474-07:00ummmm... i seem to have gone straight to the big h...ummmm... i seem to have gone straight to the big head missing steps 1-7. I assume then that this is merely a sufficiency claim?Glenn Carruthershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16939931883716946952noreply@blogger.com