I think a problem Jack is going to encounter here is that for a decade she’s relied on extremely emotive, “lived experience” type
fabrications recollections of her time in poverty, and it has generally been impactful and flies even with many academics, as noted by the fawning I see on Twitter
.
Quantitative types are a different breed*, I’ve watched people in my department who’re doing economics stuff be literally brought to tears in the Q&A sessions after presentations by professors picking apart their methods and calculations. Jack honestly hasn’t got the chops for this sort of work. She’s not smart enough in the first place (no criticism there: nor am I… hence I do not do numbers), but even if she was she’s just not capable of taking critique to improve what she’s done anyway.
*not that there aren’t wankers and angels in all circles, of course.