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- noun Extreme
specialization .
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Examples
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There's also the hyperspecialization encouraged by the fact that bars can be so small—and that almost every narrow pursuit can find enough customers to at least break even.
Made Better in Japan Tom Downey 2012
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While other areas of academic research have shriveled into hyperspecialization, the amateur tradition has kept the Lincoln field blessedly free of the guild mentality that can make academic history seem the dreary province of pedants and bullies.
Items KaneCitizen 2007
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While other areas of academic research have shriveled into hyperspecialization, the amateur tradition has kept the Lincoln field blessedly free of the guild mentality that can make academic history seem the dreary province of pedants and bullies.
Archive 2007-05-01 KaneCitizen 2007
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We should be very worried about both the hyperspecialization of both historians and their courses, which are increasingly based on narrow research interests and decreasingly based upon either student interest or need.
Katz on "Vanishing" History Courses Dan Ernst 2009
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In this era of hyperspecialization, she's a medal prospect in snowboardcross (racing over obstacles) and halfpipe (twisting and flipping).
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"In this age of academic hyperspecialization, there is no reason for supposing that contributors to top journals, distinguished political scientists, area study specialists, economists, and so on - are any better than journalists or attentive readers of The New York Times in 'reading' emerging situations," Tetlock writes.
The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed Daniel Kahneman 2011
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More significant, we're entering an era of hyperspecialization.
NYT > Home Page By ADAM DAVIDSON 2012
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"In this age of academic hyperspecialization, there is no reason for supposing that contributors to top journals -- distinguished political scientists, area study specialists, economists, and so on -- are any better than journalists or attentive readers of the New York Times in 'reading' emerging situations."
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