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  1. Claudio's avatar

    I teach both large courses, like Jurisprudence and Critical Legal Thinking (a.k.a Legal Argumentation), and small seminar-based courses at Edinburgh…

  2. Charles Pigden's avatar

    Surely there is an answer to the problem of AI cheating which averts the existential threat. . It’s not great,…

  3. Mark's avatar

    I’d like to pose a question. Let’s be pessimistic for the moment, and assume AI *does* destroy the university, at…

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  5. Jonathan Turner's avatar

    I agree with all of this. The threat is really that stark. The only solution is indeed in-class essay exams,…

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    My big problem with LLMs at the present time, apart from being potentially the epitome of Foucault’s panopticon & Big…

Does the gender of the evaluators affect PGR results?

No.  In the various studies of prior iterations of the report, no gender effect has ever been found.  I would be surprised if that were different this time.  Some areas of specialization do affect the overall results (e.g., those who do 20th-century Continental or philosophy of language tend to overvalue those areas in doing the overall assessments).  Despite that, in every past iteration of the PGR, and I am pretty sure in this new one (2017-18) too, women are invited to be evaluators at a higher rate than men (relative to their numbers in the profession).  Although I do not know the results for this year, I do know that in past years, women tended to decline the invitation at a slightly higher rate than men.

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