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Where inattention pays

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If you have a question about this talk, please contact Lewis Bremner .

(Joint work with Liam Kofi Bright)

It is easier to be mediocre when you are in the mainstream. This, at least, would be true if it were the case that mainstream academics have a preference for engaging with work from their own research traditions, while marginalized academics have to engage with mainstream work for career survival. Using computer simulations, we explore how under such attention asymmetry, mainstream work becomes over-credited, worse in quality, and over-represented, as compared to marginalized work. Along the way we present empirical evidence of this phenomenon and discuss how it relates to demographic disparities observed in the academy.

This talk is part of the Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science series.

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