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Your premise is flawed. From one anecdotal (and subjectve) data point you leap to "Many Universities support [...]".

I just interpreted your critique as supporting my position. /s

Even if it is the minority (from my anecdotal understanding it isn't) it would become like toxic waste in a professional community.

Also how would you even survey that? "Do you have zero disregard for objective truth and only interpret things to gain political capital by in-group signaling?"

How bad it is has no bearing on how often it's happening or not, or at least that can't be your only piece of data to prove this is happening.

Why not a survey given to undergrads of if they think this is the case? If you can detect this is going on surely others in your position could too.

You could also find a way to analyze the results of research produced now vs before in a particular field. Not sure how that would work necessarily

If the only way to measure this is someone's individual's general opinion, then the premise may be flawed from the start.

Sure, but I don't think you need a survey to hypothesize that: 1. Literature interpretation is subjective. 2. If you take subjectivity too far then nothing has meaning anymore. 3. People might not pay to read things that are always deconstructed to nothing.

I am not saying it IS the reason. Just surmising that it might be. If you feel the need for a survey and review to think things then that is admirable but time is not in your favor.

Am I alone in thinking a survey wouldn't be particularly effective here? Likert scales don't actually capture people's feelings all that well. I suspect interviewing dozens of undergrads would probably give a better insight. You can build a picture of what is going on without empirical data.

The GP isn't writing a thesis, they're just sharing their experience and pondering what might be happening. We don't need the kind of rigor that demands some peer-reviewed study. There is nothing wrong with anecdotes in a discussion on a forum like this.

No, your premise is flawed. You jump to the conclusion that he made that claim based on a single data point. Just because he illustrated his point with one example does not mean his point is based on one example.

In any case, this is not a statistical argument, and your comment adds nothing but noise to the discussion.

I know a couple of institutions in Argentina that do this. I'm on my phone now, but there's a paper about lion king which is an example of this.

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