I'm so thankful to have won this thought-provoking memoir through a goodreads giveaway. Though the book sounds interesting, I cannot read it. that is the only thing that is relevant. What do a mathematician, an inveterate troublemaker, an Army Ranger and a West Point graduate have in common? ", "Who will beat whom? In Act Three, Hill tried to find out what happened. The other reaction is that in evaluating what third parties say, we should realize that they will tend to support Wilkinson and Farb out of loyalty, so we should discount that support if we’re interested in justice. His absolutely overwhelming curiosity coupled with his passion for mathematics make him not only a great mathematician. Then feminists found out and started exerting heavy pressure. This article will give comfort to racists if they read it. Ted Hill. Mathematical Intelligencer, the first journal Professor Hill thought of, immediately comes to mind as appropriate. We don’t know who was on which side at the NYJM, with three exceptions. I wonder what Andrew Gelman, Terence Tao, and Tim Gowers would say. [7] Thus, we start avoiding the two of them, or we start telling them different things while hoping they never reconcile and tell each other what we’ve said to each of them. She ended up rescinding the acceptance (good, although why did she accept in the first place?). A revised version was subsequently peer reviewed again and published in the Journal of Interdisciplinary Mathematics. [8] AW is a liar. Not all fields in academia are this way. Why is someone posting math links here? What you two mean to say is that in Scotland some sheep have black wool on at least one side.” Mathematicians know how to write carefully. The editor himself should want to retract it, and if he didn't, the board of editors would be justified in forcing him to retract it and in firing him if he continued in his refusal. When I found out (a few weeks ago), I wrote to the editor-in-chief (Marjorie Senechal) complaining, as did many others, apparently. One sees this in politics generally, where by “politics” I mean people in disagreement interacting to persuade others to adopt their position. Ted Hill is Professor Emeritus of Mathematics at Georgia Institute of Technology, and a Research Scholar in Residence at California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo, CA. It is like a paper giving a new methodology for ranking math departments, the kind of paper that would attract far more readers than most math articles, but only because of its real-world implications. The paper was published. I think I would learn a lot from that. http://rasmusen.dreamhosters.com/b/2018/10/the-ted-hill-male-variability-paper-that-the-math-journals-suppressed. The Latest Memory Holed Discussion of the Greater Male Variability Hypothesis, Frank Maggio CBS Interview w/Dan Rather, December 11, 1985, It's Official: Even Hard Science Entering New Dark Age, Hypothese: mannen zijn niet beter, maar extremer dan vrouwen, A remark on Hill's work on the Greater Male Variability Hypothesis, Hill comments on Wilkinson's and Farb's statements, On Hill's work on 'Greater Male Variability Hypothesis' (GMVH). She ended up rescinding the acceptance (good, although why did she accept in the first place?). If a graduate student ends up at the beers table after a conference talk, the Great Man talks to him kindly and like an equal (which both know he’s not, but the Great Man pretends anyway, as a matter of academic good manners). Thus, we may here have an application of Lenin's principle of "Kto, Kovo? “The personal is political” is related, as is “La politique d’abord!” (“Politics first!”), though, oddly enough, this last originates with the rightwing Charles Maurras, the spiritual father of Vichy. One lesson my field, game theory, teaches is how useful it is to put yourself in the place of someone else and try to figure out what they should do to maximize their objective function given their possible actions, available information, and prior beliefs. In the Netflix series Connected: The Hidden Science of Everything, Latif Nasser interviewed Ted on Benford's Law in "Episode 4: Digits" (streaming globally August 2, 2020). A person can have two reactions to this. I'll try later when I can get this as a Kindle loan or maybe in audio. In Act Two, Igor Rivin, one of many people with the title “editor” at the well-respected online journal, the New York Journal of Mathematics (the NYJM), heard about the paper and asked Hill if he’d like to submit it to his journal. Believers in God think so, and so do atheistic believers in natural law such as philosopher Allen Bloom, but evolutionary biologists believe in human nature too. Would they say that the journal shouldn’t have published it? If the other editors thought Rivin accepted a paper containing gratuitous political points they could require the author to remove them. This book is not yet featured on Listopia. To be sure, there are creationists on the Right, but very few in academia, and absolutely none who call for journals not to publish evolutionary theory papers. That is the nature of the academic game. That is the reason I list the editors of the NYJM: it is only when giving in to pressure becomes as much of a hassle as resisting it that we can expect to keep politics out of scholarship. Or, there’s another way the NYJM could have dealt with the paper. The way of the wise is to turn off the brain when someone is accused of sexism and just get his pitchfork ready? We are not, though. I don’t usually spend 30 mins reading a blog post, but that was worth it. Thus, we may here have an application of Lenin's principle of "Kto, Kovo? And so here we are. Hill published an article online, in Quillette. Loyalty to friends is indeed a virtue--- but so is justice, and truthfulness. This may seem petty, but remember the joke about the mathematician, the physicist, and the economist on the train in the Scottish highlands. ", but is often applied to the identity-politics idea of looking to see who is on which side of an issue to decide which side you’re going to say is right. The love of God, too.” Beyond Good and Evil 67. They submitted the paper to Mathematical Intelligencer, an outlet mainly for expositions of existing ideas. Statistical discrimination is a valid mathematical theory, a simple one, to be sure, but we in economics believe simplicity in a theory is a feature, not a bug. He is known for his research on mathematical probability theory, in particular for his work on Benford's law,[1] and for his work in the theories of optimal stopping (secretary problems) and fair division, in particular the Hill-Beck land division problem. “I guess the peasant is right, but he should have been more polite.” Those three don’t have to worry about power, I think, but in academia we are very very conscious of status. Recall its attempt to kill sociobiology. At Mathematical Intelligencer, the opposition was from people who did not want mathematicians to be aware of the regularity; at NYJM it was not only that, but also because its other editors believed the journal should not publish applied mathematical models, only pure theory. When Terence Tao, Andrew Gelman, and Timothy Gowers, all reasonable people, pull their punches on Wilkinson and criticize her critics, “Kto, Kovo” seems like a reasonable theory to explain it. Disagreement and controversy are welcome.” The publication process went as far as the article being sent to India for typesetting. Case 3. Valid to publish in a math journal when it's pseudoscientific troll bait? Oh no, he's not in your tribe! I’m afraid a more likely explanation is that they thought was correct but would make people think that discrimination against women is not a problem in math departments, so the bad guys will win instead of the good gals.
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