academia
4 statements across 4 episodes · 1 bullish · 2 bearish · 4 people on the record · first statement May 30, 2017 by Rory Sutherland · across every show →
Everything said about academia, oldest first
May 30, 2017 positive
Sutherland: Business can profit from behavioral quirks that fail academic rigor
“If you're an academic, your job is to try and be right, unambiguously, completely, absolutely right about something. In business, if only 30% of people do a weird thing 20% of the time, there's still a business opportunity in that.”
Jul 2, 2019 negative
Haidt: Academic freedom ended because out-of-context tweets trigger severe public backlash
“For academics, I, you know, we used to be able to be provocative, and in academic seminars and at conferences, we could be provocative. We could raise hypotheses that could even be, you know, upsetting to some people. But that kind of ended in the last few yea…”
Feb 2, 2021 negative
Apr 5, 2022 neutral
Srinivasan: Society's Information Supply Chain Flows From Academia to Media to Regulation
“The way that our system is based is academia study something. They write up a paper, the media reports on it, and then the government regulates on that basis. It, that is the sense in which our society is based on quote science. And if you think about it, almo…”