In UK traditional universities, you earn your salary by teaching, but get promotion almost exclusively based on the quality of research. This always seemed to me "suboptimal". Lecturers who… (View Post)

This goes the other way too. When being prepared to pay high costs for high quality, you need good management to ensure you get the high quality you are paying for. This applied in the last company I… (View Post)

He would have had as many problems as May had, as the Leaver-MPs would have had been accusing him of Minimum-Brexit the whole time and probably rebelled on many of the Brexit acts like they did under… (View Post)

That last example doesn't make sense. Even in a situation where a frequentist model is sensible like the UK National Lottery. It is still possible that someone buys a ticket and matches all 6 numbers… (View Post)

Yes, I know, but my comment was to point out that the Evangelische Kirche in germany is nothing like the Evangelical churches in the UK (Of which I have had plenty of 1st hand experience). In style (… (View Post)