Actual Title Of Session At Academic Conference
Abortion, Guns, and Other Topics only Academics Could Make Boring.
via @kwcollins
Actual Title Of Session At Academic Conference
Abortion, Guns, and Other Topics only Academics Could Make Boring.
via @kwcollins
Don't forget the sequel Amy:
"A Conference So Larded With PCspeak and 'Inclusiveness' Jargon, No One Will Learn Anything or Even Know What We Were Talking About."
;-)
qdpsteve at March 23, 2015 9:54 PM
One of the topics
"Clinging to Their Guns: An Empirical Examination of Self versus Sociotropic Interest in Support for Gun Control Legislation
I test the degree to which self- and sociotropic-interest affects support for gun control legislation, by linking ANES survey data with CDC data on gun crimes at the county level.
Kathleen Donovan, Appalachian State University"
Back in the '70s (??) a study on gun control lumped 20 something in as "children". That and the continuing debate on the coming Ice Age shaped my earliest opinion of MSM.
Bob in Texas at March 24, 2015 6:08 AM
"A Conference So Larded With PCspeak and 'Inclusiveness' Jargon, No One Will Learn Anything or Even Know What We Were Talking About."
If that's held in a nice location, I'll go. Hell, can I haz 'invited speaker' designation? I could do with an addendum to my resume, and no one ever really looks at the conference title per se.
Yeah, I'm looking to be paid to go on a nice little junket. Wut?
I R A Darth Aggie at March 24, 2015 7:46 AM
If that's held in a nice location, I'll go. Hell, can I haz 'invited speaker' designation?
Searching on "MPSA" reveals that the conference will be held in Chicago in mid-April, which might be okay, but I wouldn't exactly be champing at the bit to go. Hell, if it were held in Aruba, I'd pretend to be a political scientist.
BTW, my company used to hold a conference in Santa Barbara in January. That was an event I could get behind!
Old RPM Daddy (OldRPMDaddy at GMail dot com) at March 24, 2015 9:05 AM
"A Conference So Larded With PCspeak and 'Inclusiveness' Jargon, No One Will Learn Anything or Even Know What We Were Talking About."
That's where somebody tried to present a paper on "Self-Affirmation, Tribal Dog Whistles, and the Social Sciences: Isn't It Time We Admitted We're Full of Shit?" but was pelted with free-range eggs and organic tomatoes before he even finished reading the abstract.
Old RPM Daddy (OldRPMDaddy at GMail dot com) at March 24, 2015 9:10 AM
"A List of Random Nouns, Parts of Speech, Hotel Room Key Cards, Plastic Zippers, and Chocolate Layer Cakes: Why Don't Our Paper Titles Make Any Sense?"
Cousin Dave at March 25, 2015 11:35 AM
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