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

[Paula Newman]

Robert,

Re:
> >> "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.

>> "Charlotte Taylor"
> > May I timidly point out that I find that offensive?
>
> "Robert Zimbardo"
>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 ...

Thank you.  While I was mulling  how to say this (including the PC part)
you wrote it.  There's even something called the "imposter syndrome" that
is said to affect some women who have risen to totally deserved positions
of prominence.

Also, I'm sure that anyone who has worked with John, as I have, would
assume that his comment stems purely from concerns about fairness and
opportunity.

Paula 







> [Original Message]
> From: Robert Zimbardo <robertzimbardo at gmail.com>
> To: <corpora at uib.no>
> Date: 10/15/2011 12:25:28 PM
> Subject: [Corpora-List] publishing lists of accepted and rejected papers
-side remark
>
> > 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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