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With GRE scores we can quantify the extent to which minorities, women, and lower-income applicants do worse than majorities, men,…
I find the timing here noteworthy. ChatGPT was released November 30, 2022. So in all likelihood this layoff occurred when…
It’s sad to see departments reinstate GREs and see others advocating for it. Back in 2020, I wrote an open…
Indeed that remark resonates with our topic, but note that it comes from a very early and never published essay.…
In the context of this blog, I am somewhat surprised nobody has mentioned Nietzsche! “What then is truth? … a…
We haven’t discussed this in our department (lower ranked PGR but tend to get highly competitive/very large applicant pool) but…
If you were the head recruiter for a professional basketball team, would you require height and weight measurements for prospective…
…I will get around, as promised, to Larry Summers and whether the criticisms of him raise any academic freedom issues on Monday. Sorry for the delay.
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