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谢力在《一流人才的悲催境地》中说:数学家哈尔莫斯在其书中《我要做数学家》说过:韦伊指出一个对数定律在起作用:一流人物吸引别的一流人物,但是二流人物往往聘用三流者,而三流人物聘用五流者。
这句话不错。不过,网上说叫韦伊学术雇佣定律(Andre Weil's law of academic hiring):
French mathematician André Weil once mentioned an unconsciousformula
that weaker academic departments used when hiring new faculty.
Hetold a fellow mathematician, Paul Halmos, about it and Halmos
included Weil'slaw in his autobiography. Here is what Halmos says:
"But what do you do when a department [in a university] goes bad? André Weil suggested that there is a logarithmic law at work: first-rate people attract other first-rate people, but second-rate people tend to hire third-raters, and third-rate people hire fifth-raters. If a dean or a president is genuinely interested in building and maintaining a high-quality university (and some of them are), then he must not grant complete self-determination to a second-rate department; he must, instead, use his administrative powers to intervene and set things right. That's one of the proper functions of deans and presidents, and pity the poor university in which a large proportion of both the faculty and the administration are second-raters; it is doomed to diverge to minus infinity." (p. 123)
From I Want to Be a Mathematician: An Automathography, by Paul Halmos,Springer-Verlag, New York, 1984.
我探讨一下为什么二、三流人才不聘用一流人才。原因可能如下:
1、二、三流人才怕聘用到一流人才后,一流人才不服,约束不了,怕一流人才夺了他的光辉或权力,或者嫉贤妒能,怕在学术上将他自己比下去,心理上不舒服,就如同中国话所说的“武大郞开店一样”,水平比我高的人我不用。
2、也可能是二、三流人才根本就识别不出什么是一流人才。以中国目前而论,很难看出谁是一流二流,主要看以前发表的文章,有高影响因子文章就算人才,影响因子越高人才级别就越高,但天知道是导师给写的,还是谁给写的呢?再说啦,原来发表过高影响因子文章,就能断定以后也能发表高影响因子文章?当然,中国招聘不重视导师推荐,只重视文章发表情况,这也是问题所在。
3、一流人才根本就不想到二三流人才占据要津的地方。
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