Dr. Yancey's research was a survey, not a field experiment, so it's impossible to know how many of those academics who confessed to hypothetical bias would let it sway an actual decision.
And we know how much we emphasize the academic side in the basketball office.
I don't know how a college can divorce an academic decision from the knowledge that a candidate who comes with resources may be more useful for the college in the future.
Researchers, Robert Rosenthal and Lenore Jacobson wanted to know how labels could affect children's academic success.
The goal is to support collaborations between healthcare professionals who see the problems in health services and academic researchers who know how to quantify, evaluate and disseminate new ideas, in order to address pressing health system challenges.
"Academics don't know how to affect policy, and they don't communicate with managers very well," says Michael Soulé, a professor emeritus at the University of California, Santa Cruz.
A life spent analyzing military history would be insufficient; he was the sort of academic who had to know how he would do under fire.
Regarding CoolTerra, "from my point of view, as an academic, we need to know how they make [their biochar]", Parikh says.
"Scientists, people with academic degrees, assume they know how it's done," Mr. Randi said, "but they're trained to look for the facts, not the tricks".
"I don't know how they are going to regard Russian academic qualifications in Europe or America," he said.
Furthermore, while the review sessions followed a standardized format, we do not know how reproducible they may be in other academic settings.
