Hundreds of academics at top UK universities accused of bullying
At this point it&#x27;s pretty much impossible to read such articles and figure out whether there is an actual institutional problem.<p>You know that The Guardian will present anything they can as an issue that requires institutional change. That&#x27;s just what they do these say. If you&#x27;re willing to engage in willful confirmation bias, you can take any large institution and find enough disgruntled people to to build a &quot;case&quot;.<p>I see nothing in this article about the authors trying to disprove their own hypothesis.<p><i>&quot;The Guardian sent freedom of information requests to 135 universities. Responses revealed a total of 294 complaints against academics at 55 institutions. A further 30 universities reported 337 complaints against all staff – academic and non-academic. Across 105 universities, at least 184 staff have been disciplined and 32 dismissed for bullying since 2013.&quot;</i><p>Compared to the corporate world, that sounds incredibly low, actually.<p>Of course, these days any official statistic with inconveniently &quot;good&quot; numbers can be dismissed on the grounds that there are systematic attempts to cover things up and institutional pressure not to report incidents. But that in itself is often a form of confirmation bias.