The issue is not exams so much but completion of written work. Due dates much be assigned and some get extra time which is unfair. In business one needs to be able to keep up with time lines for delivery, reporting, etc. And yes, doing things quickly and expertly is a valuable skill to cultivate.

The point on extensions is that in college these extensions occur in all classes.

When they get their first post-graduation job are they going to tell their boss they need 50% more time to finish a report the boss expects others to do by a standard deadline?

I am pleased that someone is writing about this (also glad I subscribe to The Atlantic). At my university it is something easily attained without merit.

I was almost taken in by a false Pendleton advertisement on Facebook.

Contributed, yes. But just a tiny fraction. My money is on the elites who rig the system in their favor.

One of my former students! Gotta be good!😜

Right and they have said it so many times without offering any new data or contending with the enormous data that shows males in foraging societies provide for their offspring.

I think this research thread began long ago
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

An amazing display that I plan to visit one of these days.

Incredible story. Sort of reminds me of some elements of competition in Fossil Wars between Marsh and Cope. Lack of progress in human evolution is usually explained by a lack of evidence but to that we need to add hiding evidence, coercion of junior researchers, etc.

Wow! Failed Diplomacy 101 - An introduction.

Very scary stuff from Krugman even if it is only partly accurate.

Started much earlier and maybe before the Webbs:
www.theguardian.com/politics/fro...

About time!

For me and most of my cohort who were interested in the issue, this chapter in Man the Hunter, was the most important chapter in the entire collection. It has been cited more than 1,500 times.