MJR on NPR Re: Auto Admit Case

I appeared on National Public Radio today discussing the AutoAdmit case. The show is available here.

Broken link fixed.

EVERYBODY DANCE NOW!

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4 Responses to “MJR on NPR Re: Auto Admit Case”

  1. Acro Says:
    March 3, 2009 at 7:13 pm | Reply

    Marc, broken link.

  2. tanya1414 Says:
    March 3, 2009 at 7:52 pm | Reply

    solid work, loved the borat analogy.

  3. jfischer1975 Says:
    March 4, 2009 at 7:38 am | Reply

    Is she serious? “80% of all cyber harassment victims are women”? How could that statistic really be accurately measured. I would have believed her if she said “80% of people who complain about being the victim of cyber harassment are women.” That would make sense.

    Most of the time, the people who get picked on the most are the ones who ask for it the most.

    As usual, I feel dirty after listening to NPR. I need to go take a few showers.

  4. marcorandazza Says:
    March 4, 2009 at 8:04 am | Reply

    Yikes… I’m not sure I agree with this:

    Most of the time, the people who get picked on the most are the ones who ask for it the most.

    But, I do fully agree with your first statement. Hell, I get “cyber harassed” every single day! Every. Single. Day.

    Some of it is just nasty emails. Some is nasty comments to the blawg. And back in 2004, I bought my first hand gun because of a series of troubling emails that convinced me that I may as well exercise my Second Amendment rights. In hindsight, I was being paranoid.

    Nevertheless, academics become irrelevant (and don’t get tenure) unless they publish something. Unfortunately, that leads to a glut of awful writing that the marketplace of ideas didn’t ask for, which belongs in the dented cans cart. To bolster the crappy ideas, you need phony statistics to make the story more dramatic.

    Case in point: The Utah story from last week. Unpack the data and you’ll find something a bit less dramatic than it initially seems. Nevertheless, it was fun to think that there is a number that might prove my preconceived notions right. I want to believe that Utahns are all pervs. It would restore my faith in humanity.

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