How do you tell an expert? They have credentials, of course. Er, maybe.
http://www.paulgraham.com/credentials.html
(Paul Graham is a computer scientist and dot-com winner who pontificates on subjects he understands to a greater or lesser degree. Interesting even when wrong.)
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Tropical cyclones. Anyone surprised? That's followed by Illinois, and the Simpsons. I made a full list at User:Noble Story/Project stats.
Actually, I was surprised at how good the Vital articles coverage was. 16% of the articles are "approved", which is eleventh best. Not bad, as opposed to what some have said at WP:FAC recently, about the lack of work on vital articles.
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David Gerard wrote:
How do you tell an expert? They have credentials, of course. Er, maybe.
http://www.paulgraham.com/credentials.html
(Paul Graham is a computer scientist and dot-com winner who pontificates on subjects he understands to a greater or lesser degree. Interesting even when wrong.)
Rather self-congratulatory on the grounds of US first degrees no longer being particularly meaningful! Which rather ducks the point that where you go to graduate school would still matter enormously. Why _are_ people hired in the basis of MBAs? It may be a worthwhile point that credentialism has been concentrated in sectors of the economy well away from technology startups, but even that skates over a few issues (such as how you professionalise a startup when it grows, very visible from here in Cambridge where most tech firms stay small, as opposed to the Silicon Valley model).
Charles
2009/4/25 Charles Matthews charles.r.matthews@ntlworld.com:
Rather self-congratulatory on the grounds of US first degrees no longer being particularly meaningful!
Paul Graham's stuff is always interesting, but sometimes just a little narrow ... the world is an MIT-orbiting technology startup.
Which rather ducks the point that where you go to graduate school would still matter enormously. Why _are_ people hired in the basis of MBAs?
I have a friend who's discovering that MBA is the degree after Ph.D if you don't want to be an academic. He says it's like doing flung monkey dung as a second language. Learning how to treat people as things for a living. I suppose that's shibboleths. I'm sure that's appallingly unfair to MBA degrees.
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David Gerard wrote:
2009/4/25 Charles Matthews
Which rather ducks the point that where you go to graduate school would still matter enormously. Why _are_ people hired in the basis of MBAs?
I have a friend who's discovering that MBA is the degree after Ph.D if you don't want to be an academic. He says it's like doing flung monkey dung as a second language. Learning how to treat people as things for a living. I suppose that's shibboleths. I'm sure that's appallingly unfair to MBA degrees.
I've always interpreted MBA as "Master of Bugger All". Recent news items here have suggested that students in such programmes have the highest proportion of plagiarism and other forms of academic cheating. I suppose that that is what it takes for a successful business career.
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