Ideological diversity, hostility, and discrimination in philosophy

Members of the field of philosophy have, just as other people, political convictions or, as psychologists call them, ideologies. How are different ideologies distributed and perceived in the field? Using the familiar distinction between the political left and right, we surveyed an international sample of 794 subjects in philosophy. We found that survey participants clearly leaned left (75%), while right-leaning individuals (14%) and moderates (11%) were underrepresented. Moreover, and strikingly, across the political spectrum, from very left-leaning individuals and moderates to very right-leaning individuals, participants reported experiencing ideological hostility in the field, occasionally even from those from their own side of the political spectrum. Finally, while about half of the subjects believed that discrimination against left- or right-leaning individuals in the field is not justified, a significant minority displayed an explicit willingness to discriminate against colleagues with the opposite ideology. Our findings are both surprising and important, because a commitment to tolerance and equality is widespread in philosophy, and there is reason to think that ideological similarity, hostility, and discrimination undermine reliable belief formation in many areas of the discipline

Some aspects of leader style, adaptability and effectiveness among western Massachusetts principals.

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A Proposed Dance Program For The Dunbar Junior High School, Temple, Texas

Origin of Study The author became interested in this particular problem during her first year of work. Observing how many hoys and girls that could not dance; and yet afraid to try, the author became somewhat disturbed, because it was soon realized that these boys and girls had not been given the proper training as far as dancing was concerned. After a period of months, the author returned to this situation and observed the same trouble. It could readily be seen that the opportunity of broadening themselves morally, socially, mentally, and physically had been completely overlooked. Statement of Problem The Proposed Dance Program For the Dunbar Junior High School should be set up to serve as a help to the negro youth of Temple or any youth of the nation who is faced with the same problem. dance program is concerned with the development of healthful behavior, desirable attitudes, clean sportsmanship, grace, poise, and self-control. the program is planned to take in dance activities for boys and girls throughout the nine-month term

At the Scene, On the Screen, and Beyond: Experiences and Representations of Coney Island in Early Twentieth Century Photography and Film

This thesis will examine representations of Coney Island in photography and short films from the turn o f the twentieth century and in narrative films from the 1920s. I will consider how Coney Island was represented and examine the polysémie functions ofthe. representations. The photographs and films that I have selected as case studies in this investigation are those I believe best illustrate the capacity of these media to show and recreate Coney Island experiences. Representing Coney Island saved economic, national, individual, social, cultural, and artistic ends. Situating this selection o f representations in the contexts that they were produced in and considering their formal components will demonstrate the importance and role that Coney Island representations played in its history and evolution, encompassing the impact that Coney Island and Coney Island representations in the mass media had on American culture and entertainmen

A spatio-temporal model for estimating the long-term effects of air pollution on respiratory hospital admissions in Greater London

It has long been known that air pollution is harmful to human health, as many epidemiological studies have been conducted into its effects. Collectively, these studies have investigated both the acute and chronic effects of pollution, with the latter typically based on individual level cohort designs that can be expensive to implement. As a result of the increasing availability of small-area statistics, ecological spatio-temporal study designs are also being used, with which a key statistical problem is allowing for residual spatio-temporal autocorrelation that remains after the covariate effects have been removed. We present a new model for estimating the effects of air pollution on human health, which allows for residual spatio-temporal autocorrelation, and a study into the long-term effects of air pollution on human health in Greater London, England. The individual and joint effects of different pollutants are explored, via the use of single pollutant models and multiple pollutant indices

QCD Corrections to Electroweak Vector Boson Scattering at Small Scattering Angles

We investigate the role of a certain class of QCD corrections to electroweak vector boson scattering at small scattering angles and large energies. These are present since, from the perturbative analysis, the vector bosons may dissociate into quark-antiquark pairs giving rise to colour dipoles interacting through gluon exchanges. After the computation of the vector boson impact factors, we present expressions for the lowest order QCD scattering amplitude and for the leading logarithmic BFKL amplitude. Particularly we discuss numerical results for the process $\gamma\gamma\to ZZ$. The QCD corrections to the cross section resulting from the interference with the electroweak ones are estimated and compared with the leading pure electroweak part. Corrections resulting from the leading log BFKL amplitude are of the order of few percent already at the $0.5 - 1$ TeV energy range.Comment: 21 pages,9 figures, discussion on the helicity-flip impact factors added, typos correcte