Analyst: A recent survey showed that although professors of biology who teach but do not pursue research made up one twentieth of all science professors, they were appointed to fewer than one twentieth of all the scientific administrative positions in universities. We can conclude from this survey that failing to pursue research tends to bias university administrators against appointing these professors to scientific administrative positions.
Biologists who hold scientific administrative positions in the university tend to hold those positions for a shorter time than do other science professors most seriously weakens the support for the analyst's conclusion.