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Thank you for you insights, Prof. McVey, and hang in there.

Any chance of your writing a book about the distortions in textbooks?

The climate seems ripe, with Horowiz'(sp?) book, also Rape Of The Masters and other exposes of academia.

With the awarding of the Pulitzer to such inferior works, American literature is in a sad state. And nobody will say a word about it, not a word.

English classes are assigned such 'literature' as The Color Purple and Poisonwood Bible, etc. Boosting sales for the authors and convincing students that this IS literature, therefore 'literature' is boring and pedantic, and they give up, and cease to read, and go to visuals.

So write already!

[mcvey]

Thanks for the encouragement! I have a major study coming out in November which hits this on the head. The problem is that I am really not a very good writer (by Ph.D. standards) and stick mainly to statistics. I have tried to convince my co-author that we really do need to go after a book with what we have (we measured how political bias affects judgment in academics.) She is understandably skittish. To remove me would take some doing (although students in the past have been suborned to do the dirty work on other professors.) She, however, is in a less enviable position.

Still, when we release this, I am going to find a way to post it on FR and see what happens. I am not certain that the MSM can cover this up, but who knows?

McVey