Comments on: Score that as E 26.1303 or How to Prevent the Study of Evolutionary Biology http://www.concurringopinions.com/archives/2006/08/score_that_as_e.html The Law, the Universe, and Everything Sun, 22 Nov 2009 04:22:46 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.3 hourly 1 By: Bruce Boyden http://www.concurringopinions.com/archives/2006/08/score_that_as_e.html/comment-page-1#comment-57261 Bruce Boyden Sun, 27 Aug 2006 19:03:20 +0000 http://www.solove.org/archives/2006/08/score-that-as-e-261303-or-how-to-prevent-the-study-of-evolutionary-biology.html#comment-57261 In order to evaluate the real-world impact, it sounds like we need to know how it's determined what majors map to "Ecology, Evolution, Systematics and Population Biology, Other". (Surely there aren't any majors offered out there with exactly that name.) Of course, none of this changes the "snubbing" effect of deleting a major with "evolution" in the name. In order to evaluate the real-world impact, it sounds like we need to know how it’s determined what majors map to “Ecology, Evolution, Systematics and Population Biology, Other”. (Surely there aren’t any majors offered out there with exactly that name.)

Of course, none of this changes the “snubbing” effect of deleting a major with “evolution” in the name.

]]> By: Mario Bourgoin http://www.concurringopinions.com/archives/2006/08/score_that_as_e.html/comment-page-1#comment-57260 Mario Bourgoin Sun, 27 Aug 2006 14:55:34 +0000 http://www.solove.org/archives/2006/08/score-that-as-e-261303-or-how-to-prevent-the-study-of-evolutionary-biology.html#comment-57260 To Bruce Boyden, Not according to the NYT article: "Students cannot simply list something else on an application form, said Mr. Nassirian of the registrars’ association. `Your declared major maps to a CIP code,' he said." To Bruce Boyden,

Not according to the NYT article: “Students cannot simply list something else on an application form, said Mr. Nassirian of the registrars’ association. `Your declared major maps to a CIP code,’ he said.”

]]> By: Bruce Boyden http://www.concurringopinions.com/archives/2006/08/score_that_as_e.html/comment-page-1#comment-57259 Bruce Boyden Fri, 25 Aug 2006 21:22:14 +0000 http://www.solove.org/archives/2006/08/score-that-as-e-261303-or-how-to-prevent-the-study-of-evolutionary-biology.html#comment-57259 I hesitate to be a spoilsport, but isn't evolutionary biology still covered under "26.1399 Ecology, Evolution, Systematics and Population Biology, Other"? I hesitate to be a spoilsport, but isn’t evolutionary biology still covered under “26.1399 Ecology, Evolution, Systematics and Population Biology, Other”?

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