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Friday Fluff - May 13th, 2011

Discover insights into Sara Sidner's ethnicity and a thought-provoking discussion on scientific approaches in business education.

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1) First, a post from the past: Why the indigenous still dominate the Andean region. 2) Weird search query of the week (#5 keyword!): "sara sidner ethnicity" 3) Comment of the week, in response to "Edge question 2011":

At business school (at a well-respected, major research university) one of my profs prided herself on being the most “scientific” of our professors. That was her reputation and she liked to brag about how rigorous and “scientific” her classes were. What her approach consisted of was to demand that any claim made by a student be backed with a citation in the literature. That was it. You can imagine what kind of science gets produced in MBA literature and the quality of studies used to prove or disprove various management fads. (She was also a huge proponent of using Myers-Briggs test to make hiring and staffing decisions. I consider Myers-Briggs to be ...

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