The File: Case Study in Correction (1977-1979) – Paperback-Fast Shipping

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Serge Lang (Editor)

The File is a collection of documents from a major dispute involving a number of American college professors, mainly mathematicians, statisticians, and sociologists. The controversy was ignited by the mathematician Serge Lang’s reaction to a questionnaire, “The 1977 Survey of the American Professoriate”, distributed by E. C. Ladd of the University of Connecticut and S. M. Lipset of Stanford. The ensuing discussion – in part acrimonious and personal – soon involved a large group of active and passive participants, and included issues such as survey techniques, evaluation of academic work, public and political honesty, and McCarthyism at Harvard.

Number of Pages: 712Dimensions: 1.45 x 11 x 8.25 INIllustrated: YesPublication Date: August 21, 1981