Has anyone at CEA ever looked systematically at the near-misses: the people who came to one or two meetings and never came back? The success stories are striking, but without some comparison group it’s hard to tell how much is the group’s doing and how much is that ambitious people at those universities end up in those roles regardless. Even an informal follow-up on the handful of drop-out names you can still remember would say something.
Not that I need this to be convinced, the anecdote here is striking enough, I’m mostly just curious.
Has anyone at CEA ever looked systematically at the near-misses: the people who came to one or two meetings and never came back? The success stories are striking, but without some comparison group it’s hard to tell how much is the group’s doing and how much is that ambitious people at those universities end up in those roles regardless. Even an informal follow-up on the handful of drop-out names you can still remember would say something.
Not that I need this to be convinced, the anecdote here is striking enough, I’m mostly just curious.