tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post7499660277157832231..comments2023-09-27T07:44:19.769-04:00Comments on Sabine Hossenfelder: Backreaction: Sweet Home Academia, Down UnderSabine Hossenfelderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06151209308084588985noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-32186288403847116172012-03-31T06:09:34.257-04:002012-03-31T06:09:34.257-04:00Killing that waylayer Prokrustes
was one of the h...Killing that waylayer Prokrustes <br />was one of the heroic deeds of Theseus. <br />Nevertheless he is immortal for inventing<br />Prokrastination :=)Georghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02538391164351204407noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-83663884445896670182012-03-30T17:53:08.614-04:002012-03-30T17:53:08.614-04:00Hi Bee,
Is this all part of the austerity program...Hi Bee,<br /><br />Is this all part of the austerity program that is sweeping across the world these days?<br /><br />What researcher and academics are experiencing are part of the "social order" being laid upon all economies? <br /><br /><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moving_the_goalposts" title="As logical fallacy" rel="nofollow">Goal posts</a>, standards of meeting obligationsPlatoHagelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00849253658526056393noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-79548264825982430852012-03-30T12:25:54.679-04:002012-03-30T12:25:54.679-04:00Management obsesses on what is measurable instead ...Management obsesses on what is measurable instead of promoting what is important. Management displaces discrete facts with overall ignorance (administrative despotism). Deformed decisions resulting from reality deficit disorder impose an abusive hegemony of beige celebrating the irresistible buoyancy of excrement. <br /><br />God save us from the congenitally inconsequential.Uncle Alhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05056804084187606211noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-66036162844275189972012-03-30T11:19:42.897-04:002012-03-30T11:19:42.897-04:00Yes Bee it's a Greek saying; we use it describ...Yes Bee it's a Greek saying; we use it describe this kind of situations...Giotishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03594944884584261018noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-36197150736790733532012-03-30T11:08:04.339-04:002012-03-30T11:08:04.339-04:00The Wikipedia page says: "nobody ever fitted ...The Wikipedia page says: "nobody ever fitted the bed exactly, because secretly Procrustes had two beds". I suspect that this is also the case in many academic-assessment exercises.Phillip Helbighttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12067585245603436809noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-6737169466601069792012-03-30T10:10:33.046-04:002012-03-30T10:10:33.046-04:00Very fitting... Is that a Greek saying? I hadn'...Very fitting... Is that a Greek saying? I hadn't heard of it before.Sabine Hossenfelderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06151209308084588985noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-67121280278120864012012-03-30T09:43:49.608-04:002012-03-30T09:43:49.608-04:00On the iron bed of Procrustes .On the iron bed of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Procrustes" rel="nofollow">Procrustes</a> .Giotishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03594944884584261018noreply@blogger.com