04.05.18 – Page 3 – ArtsJournal Wayback

Study: Students May Get Better Grades When There Are More Women In Class

If you want to avoid crashing and burning because of overconfidence, find a group of women classmates, and start collaborating. When it comes to studying biology, it’s not so much the frog you are dissecting as who you are dissecting it with.

Report: UK Theatres Passively Allow Culture Of Harassment

The report concludes that “bullying and abuses of power were seen to be prevalent” and that inappropriate behaviour can be found at “all levels” across all areas of the industry and in all genders. “There can be a passive culture of endorsing bullying. Leaders may encourage new entrants not to challenge, perpetuating the culture with statements such as ‘That’s just how they are’ or ‘We have extreme characters in our industry’,” it states.

Scientific Papers Have Become Obsolete

“The more sophisticated science becomes, the harder it is to communicate results. Papers today are longer than ever and full of jargon and symbols. They depend on chains of computer programs that generate data, and clean up data, and plot data, and run statistical models on data. These programs tend to be both so sloppily written and so central to the results that it’s contributed to a replication crisis, or put another way, a failure of the paper to perform its most basic task: to report what you’ve actually discovered, clearly enough that someone else can discover it for themselves. Perhaps the paper itself is to blame.”

Employees Of Richard Meier Talk About Architect Firm’s Culture Of Helplessness

After a report last month by The New York Times detailing a pattern of sexual misconduct by Mr. Meier, more women have come forward to share their own upsetting encounters with him. But in recounting such experiences, these women said they had also been disturbed by a sense of helplessness that pervaded the firm. Mr. Meier’s behavior was common knowledge, they said, but no one seemed to have the power to stop it.