thoughts? I like his work, but wow, 4 of 5 of his publications use the same exact data set (National Survey of American Life) and recycles a lot of the same literature. All 5 use existing data. Doesn't one need to ever collect data to be a Harvard prof?
Ellis Monk
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I really like Pat Sharkey's work, but I'm noticing his big hits like his 2008 AJS and his 2011 AJS with Elwert both use the same data, the PSID. They recycle a lot of the same literature too, it's all segregation this and segregation that. Even his famous book, Stuck in Place uses the PSID again. Same literature too. He's an ENDOWED CHAIR at Princeton?
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Y'all are really just now noticing that there are radically different standards for black scholars than for others?? That applies at all levels, from undergrad admissions to post-graduate hiring to tenure decisions. This is a funny thread in that there seems no be no awareness about this.
It's all like a bad telling of the Emperor's New Clothes, where if you mention a black "scholar" isn't really such, that's taken as a sign of your poor character, and everyone else is socially required to signal virtue by pretending to see something that isn't really there.
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the critique is not just about whether he collected original data or not. The critique is that he has used the SAME data over and over to come up with the same conclusion: Skin color matters. There are tons of studies on colorism everywhere and those doing such work are not even in top 50 programs. Is anyone surprised that colorism matters and it exists? Not a very novel conclusion!
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Also stu-pid point. That's no different than anything else. There are tons of studies on segregation. They use the same data sets. They same the same thing. Wow look at how much segregation there is. Segregation matters for XYZ. But I guess that belongs in a Top department and not colorism? Lol
the critique is not just about whether he collected original data or not. The critique is that he has used the SAME data over and over to come up with the same conclusion: Skin color matters. There are tons of studies on colorism everywhere and those doing such work are not even in top 50 programs. Is anyone surprised that colorism matters and it exists? Not a very novel conclusion!