{"id":37537,"date":"2011-02-10T15:36:53","date_gmt":"2011-02-10T23:36:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/gnxp\/?p=9858"},"modified":"2011-02-21T04:13:28","modified_gmt":"2011-02-21T12:13:28","slug":"tiger-mom-for-some-not-for-others","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/2011\/02\/10\/tiger-mom-for-some-not-for-others\/","title":{"rendered":"Tiger mom for some, not for others"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a rumination on the &#8220;Tiger mom&#8221; phenomenon, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stat.columbia.edu\/~cook\/movabletype\/archives\/2011\/02\/different_attit_1.html\">Andrew Gelman<\/a> suggests:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8230;Back when I taught at Berkeley and it was considered the #1 statistics department, a lot of my tenured colleagues seemed to have the attitude that their highest achievement in live was becoming a Berkeley statistics professor.<b> Some of them spent decades doing mediocre work<\/b>, but it didn&#8217;t seem to matter to them. After all, they were Tenured at Berkeley. Now, I&#8217;m not saying Chua is like that&#8211;in writing this book, she&#8217;s certainly not coasting on her academic reputation&#8211;but I do think it&#8217;s natural for someone in her position to define her success based on where she stands in the academic pecking order (and, for that matter, a best-selling popular book will help here too) rather than on her accomplishments for their own sake.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>That is an unfortunate, and frankly, scary side effect of the way meritocracy sometimes works. <i>Some<\/i> people <b>fixate more on the proxy measures than the underlying variable which it is intended to measure.<\/b> I immediately recall two close friends who were going to graduate school M.I.T. and Harvard at the same time, and by an unfortunate coincidence they made the <I>same<\/i> complaints about their advisors: that &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a rumination on the &#8220;Tiger mom&#8221; phenomenon, Andrew Gelman suggests:<br \/>\n&#8230;Back when I taught at Berkeley and it was considered the #1 statistics department, a lot of my tenured colleagues seemed to have the attitude that their highest a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1123,282,1124],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-amy-chua","category-social-science","category-tiger-moms"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37537"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37537\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37920,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37537\/revisions\/37920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}