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MOVING TO FRONT: Note we used the data for all students; next year, we'll use the data only for full-time students. Apologies for this confusion.
Here. Be sure to read the introductory caveats. Numbers are a crude, bot not useless, measure. But other metrics–like clerkships and alumni in law teaching–make fairly clear that the ordinal ordering is misleading in many cases.
Amaya Orton
Im thankful for the article. Fantastic.
A remembered Dreyfus remark on the Maharishi: I recall hearing Dreyfus say in a recorded lecture, perhaps twenty-five years ago,…