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  1. Justin Fisher's avatar

    To be worth using, a detector needs not only (A) not get very many false positives, but also (B) get…

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    Everything you say is true, but what is the alternative? I don’t think people are advocating a return to in-class…

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    Cyber security professional here -reliably determining when a computational artifact (file, etc.) was created is *hard*. This is sorta why…

  5. sahpa's avatar

    Agreed with the other commentator. It is extremely unlikely that Pangram’s success is due to its cheating by reading metadata.

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St. Thomas (Minnesota) Would Have Been a Top Performer in the Rogers Williams Scholarly Productivity Study

Professor Rob Vischer (St. Thomas-Minneapolis) writes, regarding the Roger Williams productivity study, that it,

only included AALS member schools, and since St. Thomas is so new that it has not yet been admitted to AALS, we were not included.  Our associate dean, Jerry Organ, ran the numbers for our faculty as of 2007-08, and he found that the Roger Williams formula results in a score of 9.67 for our faculty, which would rank us fifth in Prof. Yelnosky’s rankings, behind only San Diego, Cardozo, Florida State, and Richmond.  We confirmed with Prof. Yelnosky that our methodology appears to be correct.

The relatively young law school at the University of St. Thomas in Minneapolis, led by Dean Thomas Mengler (a very successful Dean at the University of Illinois, before taking over at St. Thomas), has had good success in recruiting a faculty including, perhaps most notably, adding Michael Stokes Paulsen, a leading constitutional law scholar, from the University of Minnesota.

If other schools want to conduct self-studies, and confirm the results with Professor Yelnosky (who oversaw the Roger Williams study), I’d be happy to post them here.

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