ASR publishes a debate about a GSS variable measuring # of confidants and presents the name of the variable throughout as Numgiven rather than as NUMGIVEN or numgiven or even “numgiven.” Somewhere out there is a copy editor who has no idea how much I despise them.
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Oh, they know, Jeremy. They know.
The question is: do they despise you in return?
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Once you’ve cheesed off the publications committee folks, you’ll never work in this town again!
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Yeah, I noticed that as well. By the time I’d finished reading the exchange I was imagining life in Numgiven, IN (pop. 12,720), a small midwestern town where nobody talks to anyone else.
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