At 3/2/2006 @ 10:07 AM, you wrote:
I've been deconstructed and miscontrued by a commentator on my "levels of writing piece in the last digest.
In it, I said "we reach into the humanities." The commentator thought I meant "we" meaning me.
Nope. I meant "We" (being AOIR) includes the humanities.
From being on the exec, I recall that the majority (perhaps the great majority of AoIR members are in the social sciences. But that the membership reaches into (includes) many humanities scholars.
Actually, no, I knew you meant AoIR. That was my point. There are certainly enough humanities folks in the mix here -- and that shouldn't be a secret by now -- that we're not just a special outreach program of an association founded by old school quantitative researchers (especially since I suspect the likes of Steve Jones and Nancy Baym wouldn't recognize themselves in that light anyway) cheers gil