{"id":26658,"date":"2011-08-04T16:25:14","date_gmt":"2011-08-04T14:25:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pasteris.it\/blog\/?p=26658"},"modified":"2011-08-04T16:25:14","modified_gmt":"2011-08-04T14:25:14","slug":"un-approccio-scientifico-al-nepotismo-nelle-universita-italiane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pasteris.it\/blog\/2011\/08\/04\/un-approccio-scientifico-al-nepotismo-nelle-universita-italiane\/","title":{"rendered":"Un approccio scientifico al nepotismo nelle universit\u00e0 italiane"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/allesinalab.uchicago.edu\/\">Stefano Allesina<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.plosone.org\/article\/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0021160\">ha misurato con metodi scientifici<\/a> le occorrenze dei cognomi dei 61,340 docenti nelle nostre 94 universit\u00e0. Ha scoperto scientificamente cose che si intuiscono empiricamente dalla vita vissuta.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Nepotistic practices are detrimental for academia. Here I show how disciplines with a high likelihood of nepotism can be detected using standard statistical techniques based on shared last names among professors. As an example, I analyze the set of all 61,340 Italian academics. I find that nepotism is prominent in Italy, with particular disciplinary sectors being detected as especially problematic. Out of 28 disciplines, 9 \u2013 accounting for more than half of Italian professors \u2013 display a significant paucity of last names. Moreover, in most disciplines a clear north-south trend emerges, with likelihood of nepotism increasing with latitude. Even accounting for the geographic clustering of last names, I find that for many disciplines the probability of name-sharing is boosted when professors work in the same institution or sub-discipline. Using these techniques policy makers can target cuts and funding in order to promote fair practices.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stefano Allesina ha misurato con metodi scientifici le occorrenze dei cognomi dei 61,340 docenti nelle nostre 94 universit\u00e0. Ha scoperto scientificamente cose che si intuiscono empiricamente dalla vita vissuta. Nepotistic practices are detrimental for academia. Here I show how disciplines with a high likelihood of nepotism can be detected using standard statistical techniques based on &#8230; <a title=\"Un approccio scientifico al nepotismo nelle universit\u00e0 italiane\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pasteris.it\/blog\/2011\/08\/04\/un-approccio-scientifico-al-nepotismo-nelle-universita-italiane\/\" aria-label=\"Per saperne di pi\u00f9 su Un approccio scientifico al nepotismo nelle universit\u00e0 italiane\">Leggi tutto<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1,32],"tags":[61,348],"class_list":["post-26658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diritti","category-politica","category-pensieri","tag-italia","tag-universita"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pasteris.it\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pasteris.it\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pasteris.it\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pasteris.it\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pasteris.it\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26658"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.pasteris.it\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26658\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26659,"href":"https:\/\/www.pasteris.it\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26658\/revisions\/26659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pasteris.it\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pasteris.it\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pasteris.it\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}