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0 pointstnecniv8y ago0 comments

As a note, WASP refers to old money families with ties going back to the colonial era, not just middle-class/wealthy white dudes in America. Also, at least in STEM departments, you will see plenty of non-white names.

> In Physics (my background), most papers have 2-3 citations, and only a small percentage have 1 or fewer

Does that account for self-citations?

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dragonwriter8y ago· 1 in thread

> WASP refers to old money families with ties going back to the colonial era

No, it refers to White Anglo-Saxon Protestants, an ethno-religious group that cuts across socio-economic class divides and includes plenty of people that are neither old money nor descended from families that have been in the US since the founding (and excludes some old-money, from-the-founding families.)

PeterisP8y ago

It does exclude many large subpopulations from the many immigration waves coming after the colonial era. All the irish, italian, polish, jewish people; the vast majority of 19th and early 20th century (very large!) immigrants and their descendants aren't WASPs.

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