By Henry Farrell
The Washington Post - February 12, 2015
Aaron Clauset, Sam Arbesman and Daniel Larremore have a new article
in Science Advances crunching the data on academic career paths in
computer science, business and history. Their main findings are twofold.
First, academics’ career success largely depends on the prestige of the
department where they did their PhD. Second, the system is so skewed in
favor of academics who came from prestigious departments that it’s
really hard to explain this by just saying that they are better than
people who went to less prestigious departments. The evidence suggests
“a specific and significant preference for hiring faculty with
prestigious doctorates” even aside from differences in their
productivity (which are also more skewed than one would expect if the
differences were based on merit alone). The system is also significantly
skewed against women in both computer science and business, although
there’s no evidence that they’re discriminated against in history.
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