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People are so like their first mother Eve: what they are given doesn’t take their fancy.
~ Aleksandr Pushkin
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Great Britain has lost an Empire and has not yet found a role.
~ Dean Acheson
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Robert Devereux – the English Parliamentarian and soldier – was born on this day – January 11, 1591 – in London – in what has then the Kingdom of England.
He was a graduate of both Eton College and Merton Collegeat Oxford University – where he earned an MA in 1605
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Anonymous surveys of various fields find that roughly 2 percent of scholars will admit to having fabricated, falsified, or modified data at least once in their career. But business-school psychology may be especially prone to misbehavior. For one thing, the field’s research standards are weaker than those for other psychologists. In response to the replication crisis, campus psychology departments have lately taken up a raft of methodological reforms.
~ Daniel Engber
via The Business-School Scandal That Just Keeps Getting Bigger
published in The Atlantic on November 19, 2024
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