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By: VBinNV
I’m curious as to why Venkatesh chose to squawk back at all and why he chose bwog.com and not on a more widely-read website such as, I dunno, freakonomics.com. As many bwog commenters note, his...
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By: NS
well, andrew gelman has some revealing thoughts about the ISERP controversy, and he is none too happy: “Sudhir [Venkatesh] also writes that he is “deeply troubled that someone within the University’s...
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By: RGJ
He didn’t pick a fight, he was sucker punched. And if you don’t defend yourself, it goes down as the only written history. 0 1
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By: RGJ
“”"but, from my perspective, $240,000 of missing funds of which only $13,000 has been returned, that’s more “deeply troubling” than a leak. “”"” whaaa? How is that statement even vaguely truthful?...
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By: TOR
None of this speaks to a central grievance of Andrew Gelman’s, which is that Venkatesh broke funding commitments to other faculty during his directorship of ISERP. If SV is so cavalierly making use of...
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By: RGJ
So, to recap, Gelman has an axe to grind because he thought he had a verbal on funding for himself and Professor Venkatesh subsequently disagreed. Then he offered to help with this DOJ statistical...
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By: TOR
Well Shamus Khan is an untenured faculty member of SV’s department, and he also has a book that SV blurbs. Does that mean we should take SK’s defense of SV less seriously as well? He is after all, the...
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By: Nate
200k+ hmmm… I think I understand why the tuition rate has risen 5 times the rate of inflation since 1983. 0 0
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