[Corpora-List] publishing lists of accepted and rejected papers - side remark

[Anil Singh]

Because of the way the statement was phrased (appropriately qualified, not
less, not more, not into the depth of the well, not to high heavens), I
don't find it offensive, though I also might be called a 'young' researcher
(not in age).

On Sat, Oct 15, 2011 at 8:48 PM, Robert Zimbardo
<robertzimbardo at gmail.com>wrote:

> > Date: Sat, 15 Oct 2011 10:54:39 +0100
> > From: "Charlotte Taylor" <Charlotte.Taylor at port.ac.uk>
> > Subject: Re: [Corpora-List] corpora-list: publishing lists of accepted
> and rejected papers
>
> >> "John F. Sowa"  15/10/11 6:25 AM >>>
> >> Some people, especially women and younger researchers, may be rather
> timid about submitting a paper to a prestigious conference or journal for
> the very first time.
> > May I timidly point out that I find that offensive?
>
> While this is not the topic of this thread, maybe it should be the
> topic of another one ... Since when is mentioning a correlation that
> has been perceived by individual people and backed up by only a few
> decades of research (with of course many other variables involved as
> well) offensive, especially when John phrased it as a hypothesis
> (using "may")? I am not even saying he's right or wrong (because I
> don't have any data on this myself), but I am concerned that the
> overall PC gagging order does not even allow his type of stating a
> possibility anymore ...
>
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