The fact that this mess got into ASR is one more data point showing the randomness of who succeeds.
Whiteness predicts career success in sociology, net other factors
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I think my main objection here is the authors’ dis/honesty in calling advising “career success”. If they had instead framed this as “Who winds up advising gradf/lakes?”, then no one would object. But also it would never have made ASR, and would have wound up in some EdD journal.