Maybe it's having worked as a sysadmin in a computer science department, but when people try to pull rank on me nowadays, I tend to push back exceptionally hard. "Oh, you have a Ph.D. Good for you, your mother must be very proud. Are you then, cherry picking research findings to support your argument while totally dismissing contradictory evidence, and in fact to bolster whatever cockamamie line of research you're currently pursuing, possibly only submitting to journals you already know will review your work favorably? No? Prove it. And stay away from that computer, your Ph.D. means you're just going to break it."
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Anyway, the two biggest problems I've seen with rank pullers in my own industry is cherry picking and an utterly mystifying belief that confirmation bias doesn't effect the rank puller. Having done no research, I can but speculate, but I suspect this would also be true in other walks of life as well, and I'm always loathe to pull rank because I think it's really hard to account for these factors (the latter more than the former).
And don't get me started on rank-pullers in cycling.
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Date: 2007-08-26 05:58 pm (UTC)<grumble>
Anyway, the two biggest problems I've seen with rank pullers in my own industry is cherry picking and an utterly mystifying belief that confirmation bias doesn't effect the rank puller. Having done no research, I can but speculate, but I suspect this would also be true in other walks of life as well, and I'm always loathe to pull rank because I think it's really hard to account for these factors (the latter more than the former).
And don't get me started on rank-pullers in cycling.