In other words: Did I waste a lot of time? I don’t think the project I described in a previous post was a waste of time at all — there are two ways in which I think of the project: The mere act of going through the abstracts pointed out to me the articles that…
Read More Followup: Why bother to have abstracts for all my journal articles?I believe this to be true, but don’t take my word for it… the National Bureau of Economic Research just published a study that found that double majoring is good for future careers and career earnings. Here’s the abstract: We study how human capital diversification, in the form of double majoring, affects the response of…
Read More Polymaths are protected from economic shocksOne of the complaints that my students hear from their STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) friends is that communication is such an “easy” discipline. In the first week or two of my Communication Theory and Theory and Research classes, we pretty quickly work on refuting that notion. We talk about how even the “simplest”…
Read More Polymaths and the Communication DisciplineAs I mention elsewhere on this site, I’ve been slowly trying to get electronic copies of all my articles since not all of my journals were able to make the trip from Minnesota to Georgia. And let’s just say that some of the predictions came true a little earlier than intended, and some of the…
Read More How well do old journal articles hold up?