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overspecialization

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  • noun An extreme specialization

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Examples

  • She said there was a healthy shift away from what she described as the overspecialization of dancers in the

    NYT > Home Page 2010

  • Also, my personal intuition and experience suggests that overspecialization is extremely dangerous.

    Ricardo's Difficult Idea Eludes Wonks, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

  • So, even though I think Hacker, Dreifus and Taylor are right to worry about severe overspecialization (with its associated bureaucracy) in certain fields, I think they might say more about the positive feedback loop that can connect the classroom and the archive, the science lab and the lecture hall.

    Michael Roth: Virtuous Circle of Teaching and Research Michael Roth 2010

  • So, even though I think Hacker, Dreifus and Taylor are right to worry about severe overspecialization (with its associated bureaucracy) in certain fields, I think they might say more about the positive feedback loop that can connect the classroom and the archive, the science lab and the lecture hall.

    Michael Roth: Virtuous Circle of Teaching and Research Michael Roth 2010

  • So, even though I think Hacker, Dreifus and Taylor are right to worry about severe overspecialization (with its associated bureaucracy) in certain fields, I think they might say more about the positive feedback loop that can connect the classroom and the archive, the science lab and the lecture hall.

    Michael Roth: Virtuous Circle of Teaching and Research Michael Roth 2010

  • I think the happiness surveyors are good examples of overspecialization and people with too much free time.

    Omniscient Voyeur, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

  • So, even though I think Hacker, Dreifus and Taylor are right to worry about severe overspecialization (with its associated bureaucracy) in certain fields, I think they might say more about the positive feedback loop that can connect the classroom and the archive, the science lab and the lecture hall.

    Michael Roth: Virtuous Circle of Teaching and Research Michael Roth 2010

  • Modern medicine, he believes, is all mobbed up, filled with ruthless drug companies, corrupt doctors with deep conflicts of interest, overspecialization, overreliance on machines, and impersonal care.

    Shock of Gray Ted C. Fishman 2010

  • Wesleyan had taken a stand against departments and the overspecialization of education in the late 1950s by creating the College of Letters and the College of Social Studies.

    Michael Roth: Universities in Crisis? From Compartmentalization to Collaboration 2009

  • Critics contend that M.B.A. programs imbue their students with a dangerous overconfidence in data and financial models; that academic overspecialization keeps students ignorant of systemwide risks; and that programs treat ethics as an afterthought.

    B-School Backlash 2009

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