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Marc Robbins's avatar

This is an almost totally unrelated pet peeve of mine, but I'm struck by how many news articles, when they reach out to academic experts for their takes, tend to go to Ivy League universities and to an unhappy degree particularly to Harvard professors. Now, I'm sure they're smart and all that, but we have academic talent all over the nation. I suspect that it's just an implicit bias among journalists and a bit of laziness to avoid the work needed to learn who the best informed and interesting academics are in the rest of the nation.

Do better, journalists.

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Alexandre Zani's avatar

I think it's worth considering that if those elite schools feed into elite and powerful jobs, a greater diversity in these schools could lead to greater diversity at the top of the corporate and government worlds. That could ultimately lead to decision-making that is better for more people.

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