Posted by Jay Chmiel on July 02, 1999 at 15:03:21:
Section II.F.6 of the Guidelines states,
"Use professional qualifications and the
contributions of the individual as the basis for
decisions regarding ... candidacy for ... awards.
Strive to avoid ... discrimination against
statistical practitioners on professionally
irrelevant bases such as ... sex, ... age, ...".
Don’t several current statistical awards already
violate this guideline, such as the ASA Biometrics
Section’s Byar Young Investigator Award, the COPSS
Presidents’ Award, and ASA’s Gertrude Cox Scholarship
Award? (Candidacy for the first two awards is
restricted to individuals under 40 and application for
the third is limited to women.) If so, it would seem
that either the Ethics Guidelines or the criteria for
these awards need to be changed.
Jay Chmiel
P.S. This is a repeat of my comment on Version VI.
What were the committee’s thoughts when they
considered this issue and decided not to amend
this section in Version VII?