Carolyn Dicey Jennings
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A note on Carolyn Dicey Jennings and her compilation of placement data
Professor Jennings (UC Merced) gets credit for being the only person to not simply grouse about the PGR rankings (although she does plenty of that), but to actually try to offer an alternative resource–kudos to her for that. The job placement data she and her team collect are useful, but she chooses to present some…
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On being the victim of a stalker, and then being defamed for the stalker’s crime
In 2016, I was the victim of a stalker who tried to frame me for a crime; I sought help from the police and spent time and money on lawyers and forensic investigators trying to identify the perpetrator, without success. Anyone paying attention at the time realized that I was also a victim, but, unfortunately,…
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Placement in PhD-granting programs in the new academic job placement report
MOVING TO FRONT FROM OCTOBER 3 I’ve started to look a bit more at the data from the new placement analysis (commissioned and paid for by the APA no less), and there were plainly some peculiar choices made in how to frame the data. As David Chalmers points out, post-docs are lumped in with fixed…
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How “professional” is Carolyn Dicey Jennings’s data analysis?
Jenny Saul (Sheffield) declared Prof. Jennings "a professional data guru." How professional? This exchange between her and David Wallace (Oxford) is instructive. Prof. Wallace starts by quoting Jennings's attempt to attack me with her data: David Wallace said… "9 of the 11 programs mentioned by Brian have a higher percentage of either women graduates…
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Actually, no one has recommended closing programs “that better serve women and minorities in philosophy”…
…but in keeping with the juvenile dishonesty and dissembling with which we’ve all grown familiar in the philosophy blogosphere, Jenny Saul (Sheffield) and Justin Weinberg (South Carolina) both frames it that way (Saul, of course, without posting a link to the actual discussions about PhD programs that should probably close, since that degree of courtesy and…
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More nonsense rankings
I’ve corresponded periodically with Carolyn Dicey Jennings (UC Merced) about her interest in data on the job market, and I have no doubt her intention is to provide constructive information. But the road to hell is often paved with good intentions, and an alleged “comparison” like this is confusing and misleading for fairly obvious reasons: First, by her own admission,…
I wonder how feasible and time-intensive it would be to make it a standard policy check for undisclosed AI usage.…