What’s the most memorable feedback you’ve received on your work?
@ThePhDPlace "This article changed my life. It gives voice to so many issues that I lacked the expertise to analyze on my own." From a law student at another law school, who eventually became a professor. I could state editorial reviews, but these are actually more powerful to me.
@ThePhDPlace These comments are hilarious/sad.
When I was a new prof I read the comments/marks my TA wrote on the share of the papers he had marked so that I could ensure consistency in marking standards. (I had never worked with a TA before). I came across this gem: “I looked for a reason not to give this paper an F. I failed and so did you”! Fortunately I caught this before the student saw it but I will never forget it!
@ThePhDPlace Accepted with minor revisions
@ThePhDPlace Fall 2010 dissertation committee: the regimes in the Middle East are too stable to use as cases for a dissertation on political instability
Our Behavioral and Brain Sciences paper on how leftist bias in research psychology has undermined the validity and truthfulness of research was first reviewed at Perspectives in Psychological Science. The paper briefly covers the severe underrepresentation of non-leftists in academic psychology, particularly conservatives, going into self-selection, discrimination, hostile environment, and other likely or known factors. One reviewer at Perspectives asserted that the reason conservatives were underrepresented was that they gravitate to the military, for the money.
@ThePhDPlace A colleague and I happened to be measuring the detailed behavior of an ant trail and its metabolic rate when, serendipitously, the Landers magnitude 7.4 earthquake struck. The ants did not react at all. 1/
I wrote a paper in a sociology undergrad elective, and the prof encouraged me to shop it around for publication (bearing in mind I had zero concept of that at the time so I didn't think to send it to student journals) Flash forward a few weeks. Editor from a big name journal calls my school's sociology dept (lol) and leaves a message re: the submission. Call the prof back and she's just effusive with praise and then says "But can you tell me about yourself? The credential fields in your submission didn't populate. Are you a prof at (school)? Post-doc?" "Hm? Oh, no, I'm a 4th year undergraduate" (Very long silence) "......oh, well, we don't publish undergrads" *click* Just the contempt in her voice when she said it still makes me chuckle
@ThePhDPlace Description of my behavior in the team diary of Raleigh International expedition in Siberia, 1994 written by participants from Great Britain.