Readers
will have been waiting with bated breath to see the results of our first go at
running a poll here at the DoD. To
recall, we asked readers to weigh in on how to rank journals of Deviance, with
the hope of identifying those journals we should consider “top” or, when we should be super impressed, “top notch.”
Without
further ado, here are the results:
#1: It
Depends. This, for the
uninitiated, is not the name of a journal (though it really should be), but
apparently our readers thought that given the radical breadth of deviance, it
is unlikely that any one journal will excel in deviance, full stop. So what journal will be best largely depends
on what flavor of deviance you pursue.
(Defeats all other possibilities in a condorcet bloodbath of
unimaginable proportions.)
#2: What
Happened to your Vocabulary? Alas, this too
is not a journal, but apparently a way of readers registering dismay with our
use of simplistic and, we must face it, imaginatively impoverished words such as
“top” and “top notch” to refer to wildly complex judgments of quality regarding
journals. Still, we think our readers
are top notch for pointing this out and henceforth resolve to try to be better.
#3: The One
that Accepted my Paper. Here we are convinced
that readers are just yanking our chain.
But since they are our
readers, we’re confident that any journal taking their work must indeed be the
bomb.
#4: I Like
Taking Polls as a Way to Escape my Paid Work, but have no Real Opinions on
This. We were hoping
to get more detail from correspondents who selected this option but before we
could ask any additional questions, they had navigated away to take a Buzzfeed
quiz on hipster hairdos.
#5: I Would
Like to Whack you with a Stick. Still not an
actual journal, though here too we’re thinking someone should get on that. For now, however, let us take a moment to
appreciate the Zen contingent of Deviance.
Thanks for taking our poll, Zen Deviants, and consider us whacked.
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