Yeah, I'm not going to start calling out professors on a sports message board...

Aug 3, 2021
9:22:27pm

Corsica Redshirt Freshman

But I'm quite familiar with some of the pseudo scholarship that rolls around in certain departments. And BYU's idea of peer review is such areas is...peculiar.

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Corsica

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FYI - The LOCKED Church's descriptive paragraph from Wikipedia...

LEDSFW

8/3/21 6:59pm

Who’s getting bent out of shape when someone says it’s not a research university

Fatalplacebo

8/3/21 7:05pm

Jarom Jordan and everyone with a red ewe T-shirt.

travelcoug

8/3/21 7:26pm

Then ignore them. Why care what they think?

Fatalplacebo

8/3/21 9:04pm

Also, BYU teaches secular subjects. They taught evolution with no mention of God

Benfica1

8/3/21 8:58pm

Evolution was one of my favorite classes at BYU

Fatalplacebo

8/3/21 9:05pm

That was a good class.

dave

8/4/21 7:30am

Although there are sectors within the university where dogma is favored over...

Corsica

8/3/21 9:06pm

Name them. I was there 4.5 years and heard no dogma in non-religious classes.

Benfica1

8/3/21 9:12pm

Yeah, I'm not going to start calling out professors on a sports message board...

Corsica

8/3/21 9:22pm

OK. Sectors and people are very different. But, I'll give you your experiences.

Benfica1

8/4/21 7:43am

Interesting historic observation on this...

LEDSFW

8/3/21 10:21pm

Apparently, LEDSFW is.

cougarmeister

8/3/21 9:58pm

Mainly UTES driving raised Pick-up trucks sporting 14" PAC 12 sticker in...

LEDSFW

8/3/21 10:13pm

When others criticize BYU's lack of research, I think they really mean that BYU is not in the AAU club.

Wingnut

8/3/21 8:34pm

Which is based a lot on the number of federal grants a school gets.

Benfica1

8/3/21 8:58pm

In terms of research $$$ the gap between R1 and R2 is enormous.

Corsica

8/3/21 8:58pm

Depends on what you mean by enormous and type. R1 institute's tend to have...

LEDSFW

8/3/21 10:36pm

True, some research costs more so $ isn't a good estimate; let's use output then

krindorr

8/4/21 8:19am

By posting this, you're just indicating how little you know about the topic

reddead

8/3/21 9:17pm

By commenting the way you did you proved an inadequate ability to break down...

LEDSFW

8/3/21 10:48pm

Do you have any knowledge outside of Wikipedia page?

djetal

8/4/21 10:03am

Here are some of the rankings that indicate a university's research status

BlueSpartan

8/3/21 11:49pm

RE: FYI - The LOCKED Church's descriptive paragraph from Wikipedia...

jimmything

8/4/21 12:23am

Boise State's Wikipedia description also says research only eight words in

krindorr

8/4/21 3:22am

You reach accurate conclusions through the most flawed arguments (see SMU)

krindorr

8/4/21 3:35am

You're like unable to drop this subject...

HepcatCougar

8/4/21 10:30am

The description itself notes that BYU is an R2 school. Is there research?

TailgateU

8/4/21 11:18am

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