Meyers, a respected biologist at the Universityof Minnesota-Morris, noted over the weekend on his popular Pharyngula blog, the Encode research consortium that claimed to have identified function in 80% of the genome, actually discovered that a formula of 80% hype gets you the attention of the world press a point he pointedly made in his analysis last fall.
But within an employment field, these numbers are different, says Morris Kleiner, a professor of economics at the UniversityofMinnesota, who is an expert on occupational licensing.