I attended an excellent mini-conference/workshop last year. It got me thinking about my #1 rule for presentations, however == the talk is an advertisement for the paper, not the paper itself.
Though the conference emphasized quantitative methods and all talks devoted significant time to discussions of method, selection bias, causality, and the like, not all of [...]
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More Equations=Less Substantive Meaning?
Posted in conferences, research on June 25, 2009 | 5 Comments »
where an instructor admits lack of knowledge (and then rationalizes it)
Posted in crime, prison reentry, research, sociology, teaching, undergrads on May 23, 2009 | 6 Comments »
I was reading an article on celibacy and the priesthood the other day and came across this:
And while abstinence does not inevitably lead to child molestation, critics are quick to draw a link between priestly celibacy and recent pedophilia scandals.
My first thought… “Wait a minute, does celibacy often lead to child molestation?” This is no [...]
Personal-Professional Research Agendas
Posted in on the tenure track, research, sociology on February 3, 2009 | 6 Comments »
How much is what you study related to your background or personal experiences? I know all of our research is personally important, but do you study teen pregnancy because you were the product of one? Goffman and The Asylum notwithstanding, one of the reasons juvenile delinquency has never been a large focus of mine is [...]
Divorce Risk
Posted in research, sociology on December 2, 2008 | 8 Comments »
Freakonomics pointed me to the divorce risk calculator today. You enter a few demographics and, voila, an assessment of your divorce risk in the next 5 years. Mine is apparently high. 26% of those like me have already divorced and my risk in the next five years is 7%. I didn’t think 7% sounded so [...]
NSP on t.v. (in HD where available)
Posted in research on July 20, 2008 | 2 Comments »
you know the thing where you hear yourself on voice mail and are appalled? (i sound really young and have been known to end declarative sentences as if they were questions). or, how about looking at pictures of yourself and realizing that you aren’t quite as good-looking or thin as you’d thought? (i avoid having [...]
Things I learned today…
Posted in research, undergrads, work/family on June 27, 2008 | 4 Comments »
When you shell out the money to buy STATA SE so that you can have as many as 32,000 variables, you also have to have a supercomputer for this to work. In practice, you will increase your variable limit from about 2200 to about 5300.
After 10 years of marriage, both of you will forget that [...]
Las Vegas Debriefing
Posted in on the tenure track, pop culture, research, sociology, travel on June 25, 2008 | 1 Comment »
After a week off from blogging, I have nothing of consequence to say (not that I ever did, but I used to hide it better). Other bloggers are in Paris, NYC, Malawi, to name a few. NSP chose to go to Vegas on my off week — this will be no surprise to those who [...]
I’ve discovered something worse than “the reviewers hated it…”
Posted in on the tenure track, research, writing on April 27, 2008 | 5 Comments »
I sent a paper out a few months ago, aimed silly-high, assumed it would get rejected, and went on about my business.
It did get rejected but the reviewers didn’t hate it. They bought the method, believed my results, but basically wanted the paper I’m currently working on. In summary, I sent the ‘here’s the effect’ [...]
thoughts on public sociology and the tenure process…
Posted in on the tenure track, politics, research on April 17, 2008 | 6 Comments »
i attended a great discussion this week on public sociology, engaged sociology, applied sociology, embedded sociology, whatever the heck you want to call it… i guess i fancy myself one — or, really, i fancy myself becoming one once my academic reputation allows for it. or, to be more clear, i fancy myself combining extra-academic policy sociology [...]
Things I wish I hadn’t done in grad school or… an open letter of apology (filled with sheepishness) to my advisor, dissertation committee members, director of graduate studies, and assorted others
Posted in mentors, on the tenure track, research, writing on April 9, 2008 | 11 Comments »
It seems to me that the first year out of graduate school is characterized by much reflection on what you would do differently, if given the chance.* Many of the things that I now notice that students should NOT do also apply to new assistant professors. NOTE: I’m not talking about this with respect to [...]
