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    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…

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    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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Canadian Law Schools Ranked Again

Here.  The underlying measures remain the same as in prior years, though we made some adjustments to the scholarly impact measure.  I would like Macleans to also conduct a reputational survey of academics, but they have not had the budget to do it, unfortunately.   I still think this exercise provides some useful information for prospective students, far more so than U.S. News, and the effective presentation of the results by Macleans makes the inputs quite clear and transparent–and none of them, happily, are subject to manipulation or misrepresentation by the schools themselves.

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