More on the 02138 Poll
The Globe's story about 02138 magazine's poll of Harvard alumni adds nuance to the Times' piece.
As the Times emphasized, 63% of respondents said Summers should keep his job (the Globe makes specific that the question asked whether Summers should resign).
But 67% said that Summers' management style needed improvement.
And not surprisingly, how you feel about the matter varied according to your gender. Seventy-one percent of men think that Summers should stay on; just 41% of women agree. Just 25% of women have a favorable impression of Summers, while 65% of men like him.
Here are two questions I wish 02138 would have asked:
1) If you don't think Summers should resign, why not? If you do, why?
2) Do you think Harvard is better off now than it was four years ago?
A footnote: The Crimson, which tiptoes around the idea of actually breaking news, should consider itself scooped on this poll. It's kind of an obvious thing to do—but it took a new alumni magazine to do it. Congratulations to
02138.
