A Newly Minted Ph.D.
That’s right – about 3:30PM today, I passed my dissertation defense and am semi-officially a Ph.D. I say semi-officially because there is some paperwork in the way, but for the most part… it’s done. It’s an odd feeling…
Home-Buying, Finale
It’s done; we own a house! And it all came down to a last-minute 1.5-mile bike ride through suburban Minneapolis…
Discrimination in Hiring via Social Networks
Discrimination isn’t in itself a bad thing, which is a hard concept to get across to my undergraduate classes. In order to make good hiring decisions, you have to discriminate: this person has more...
Where Is the Divide: I vs O vs HR vs OB
A recent myriad of discussions across the I/O blogosphere on the status of I/O psychology as a science had led me to notice something peculiar about people in these discussions – the tendency of...
It Is Impossible to Schedule Six People Simultaneously
Well, not impossible. But very difficult! Especially if the five people that you are e-mailing don’t all check their e-mail at least every day or two. But after 31 total e-mails over the course of a week, I have a defense date – May 6…
Textbook Publishing
PZ Meyers recently commented on an older article about how primary and high school textbooks get chosen and why Texas has overwhelming power in nationwide adoption rates. It’s really quite… well… disturbing. I won’t...