Ha. I actually checked for that, but obviously not carefully enough. My apologies.
[EDITED to add:] OK, so I went back and searched the page, and it doesn’t say that anywhere. (Though buried in the middle of the article is a statement along the lines of “all controversial things I write, like this article, are anonymous or pseudonymous”, so I still should have known.) Perhaps it’s because I’m reading on a mobile device?
You get that line if you click on the author’s name.
The article starts by saying: I'm a professor at a midsize state school.
If you read between the lines that’s a decision against revealing the name of the school and thus a decision to protect anonymity.
In general the media likes to use pseudonyms when it can’t use the real name, so the fact that you have a name on the top is no good evidence that the article isn’t written anonymously or under a pseudonym.
That’s why I looked for a statement at the start or end that the name was pseudo. I think not finding such a thing genuinely was evidence of non-pseudonymity, though clearly not enough evidence was it turned out. I didn’t think of clicking on the name because I’m an idiot.
Ha. I actually checked for that, but obviously not carefully enough. My apologies.
[EDITED to add:] OK, so I went back and searched the page, and it doesn’t say that anywhere. (Though buried in the middle of the article is a statement along the lines of “all controversial things I write, like this article, are anonymous or pseudonymous”, so I still should have known.) Perhaps it’s because I’m reading on a mobile device?
You get that line if you click on the author’s name.
The article starts by saying:
I'm a professor at a midsize state school.If you read between the lines that’s a decision against revealing the name of the school and thus a decision to protect anonymity.In general the media likes to use pseudonyms when it can’t use the real name, so the fact that you have a name on the top is no good evidence that the article isn’t written anonymously or under a pseudonym.
That’s why I looked for a statement at the start or end that the name was pseudo. I think not finding such a thing genuinely was evidence of non-pseudonymity, though clearly not enough evidence was it turned out. I didn’t think of clicking on the name because I’m an idiot.