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...journalist is to identify and explore societal undercurrents, especially if they are difficult to discern. But overzealously applied, this aim leads to the inflation or wholesale creation of trends in an effort to make individual incidents have some broader social significance.These trend stories are notoriously difficult to substantiate??€”for every 10 anecdotes pointing one way, one can easily find 20 the other. This particular New York Times article—based on 138 interviews with freshman and senior women at Yale, and supplemented by some conveniently-interpreted results from university surveys of Yale and Harvard Business School graduates?...
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