Sep 22, 2007
“In order to get tenure you must not arrive at conclusions that members of tenure committees can disagree with. In math and the sciences, you can prove what you’re saying. Or adjust your conclusions so you’re not claiming anything false (“6 of 8 subjects had lower blood pressure after the treatment”). In the humanities you can either avoid drawing any definite conclusions, or draw conclusions so narrow that no one cares enough to disagree with you.
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