Word: provocationã
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Dates: during 2005-2005
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...admission, Summers came to the NBER conference ready to give a speech with “some attempts at provocation?? rather than “an institutional talk” on Harvard’s policies. He was there, he said, to discuss “the issue of women’s representation in tenured positions in science and engineering at top universities and research institutions.” Summers presented three hypotheses—predicated in part on research, part on his own observations—to explain the observed underrepresentation of female scientists and engineers...
...that “this [wasn’t] going to work.” My position, aside from being too nuanced (read: informed and accurate), echoed the sentiments of my co-chair too much. It didn’t matter if we were right, ratings require controversy and provocation??and it certainly doesn’t matter if issues are conflated to the point of senselessness. But then came the icing...
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