Comments on: The Irrelevant, the Revolutionary, and the Well-Cited http://www.concurringopinions.com/archives/2007/12/the_irrelevant.html The Law, the Universe, and Everything Tue, 14 Feb 2012 05:18:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Frank http://www.concurringopinions.com/archives/2007/12/the_irrelevant.html/comment-page-1#comment-51190 Frank Sun, 16 Dec 2007 19:12:34 +0000 http://www.solove.org/archives/2007/12/the-irrelevant-the-revolutionary-and-the-well-cited.html#comment-51190 Thanks for the shout-out! I think the reductio ad absurdum of the approach was Richard Posner's book "Public Intellectuals". . . .which also exhibited the genius behind starting a ranking system based on how much you're talked about--you get talked about by many of the people you rank (and many of those you don't)! Here's a nice list of reactions to Posner's book: http://www.complete-review.com/quarterly/vol3/issue2/posner.htm PErhaps the only way to fight a ranking system one disagrees with is to ignore it. Thanks for the shout-out! I think the reductio ad absurdum of the approach was Richard Posner’s book “Public Intellectuals”. . . .which also exhibited the genius behind starting a ranking system based on how much you’re talked about–you get talked about by many of the people you rank (and many of those you don’t)!

Here’s a nice list of reactions to Posner’s book:

http://www.complete-review.com/quarterly/vol3/issue2/posner.htm

PErhaps the only way to fight a ranking system one disagrees with is to ignore it.

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