http://www.concurringopinions.com/archives/2008/02/ridiculously_un.html The Law, the Universe, and Everything Sun, 22 Nov 2009 04:22:46 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.3 hourly 1 http://www.concurringopinions.com/archives/2008/02/ridiculously_un.html/comment-page-1#comment-50433 Jason Kilborn Wed, 06 Feb 2008 21:43:35 +0000 http://www.solove.org/archives/2008/02/ridiculously-unscientific-ranking-ssrn-february-edition.html#comment-50433 Why should we not be basing our totally unscientific responses to the USNWR "peer evluation" survey on these SSRN rankings, as opposed to (1) gut instinct, (2) student quality, (3) echo chamber reiteration of last year's USNWR rank, or (4) some other guide? Especially for schools with which one is unfamiliar, it seems to me that these ranks should for many schools become the default "peer estimation" ranking. Why should this not be the case? Why should we not be basing our totally unscientific responses to the USNWR “peer evluation” survey on these SSRN rankings, as opposed to (1) gut instinct, (2) student quality, (3) echo chamber reiteration of last year’s USNWR rank, or (4) some other guide? Especially for schools with which one is unfamiliar, it seems to me that these ranks should for many schools become the default “peer estimation” ranking. Why should this not be the case?

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