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Terry Elliott's List: Dissertations and Doctoral Life

  • digital digs: the long tail of research citations

    • icked this up from the WPA listserv: a recent article from the Boston Globe cites research that indicates that contemporary scholarly work cites a fewer range of sources than work in the past.

      James Evans, a sociologist at the University of Chicago, analyzed a
      database of 34 million articles in the sciences, social sciences, and
      humanities, and determined that as more journal issues came online, new
      papers referenced a relatively smaller pool of articles, which tended
      to be more recent, at the expense of older and more obscure work.
      Overall, Evans says, published research has expanded, due to a
      proliferation of journals, authors, and conferences. But the paper,
      which appeared in July in the journal Science, concludes that the
      Internet's influence is to tighten consensus, posing the risk that good
      ideas may be ignored and lost - the opposite of the Internet's promise.

      "Winners are inadvertently picked," says Evans. "It drives out diversity."

  • gladwell dot com - personality plus

    • Suppose that you were a senior Army officer in the early days of the Second World War and were trying to put together a crack team of fearless and ferocious fighters. Sandy Nininger, it now appears, had exactly the right kind of personality for that assignment, but is there any way you could have known this beforehand? It clearly wouldn't have helped to ask Nininger if he was fearless and ferocious, because he didn't know that he was fearless and ferocious. Nor would it have worked to talk to people who spent time with him. His friend would have told you only that Nininger was quiet and thoughtful and loved the theatre, and his commanding officer would have talked about the evenings of tea and Tchaikovsky. With the exception, perhaps, of the Scarlet Pimpernel, a love of music, theatre, and long afternoons in front of a teapot is not a known predictor of great valor. What you need is some kind of sophisticated psychological instrument, capable of getting to the heart of his personality.
    • Over the course of the past century, psychology has been consumed with the search for this kind of magical instrument. Hermann Rorschach proposed that great meaning lay in the way that people described inkblots.
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  • Glibly Attractive: Reading Annie Murphy Paul's The Cult of Personality

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    on 2008-12-09

    • iven that quantification and the American way of life has a close association (e.g.

      Banta 2004), this view might seem a little incongruous. From the Stanford Binet to

      the MMPI, the NEO-PI and beyond, the US has led in the development and use of

      psychological instruments across many professions and has exported that approach

      elsewhere, particularly in business, where the connection between testing and the

      workplace originated in the1920s.

  • ed4wb » Blog Archive » Insulat-Ed

    Absolutely fascinating and frightening. Merry Xmas.

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    learning networking design on 2008-12-13 and saved by 45 people

    • the educational hegemony of traditional schools continues to decrease.
    • In an effort to stave off obsolescence
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  • Approach - Thinking - IDEO

    • With effective storytelling, ideas are embraced, adopted, and fostered faster and more efficiently. At IDEO, we use whatever storytelling medium best fits the message—videos, skits, immersive environments, narratives, animations, even comic strips—to convey to clients and stakeholders the intent, potential, and emotional experience of an idea or product.
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