U.S. News had been among those urging the ABA to take action to improve the credibility of the important consumer information.
Yes, "urging." See, kids, this is how reform works. Figureheads like Bob Morse are a position to change the system immediately, and yet they do nothing. Then, when the people who actually care about reform show up and make a self-evident point, the coat-riders like Morse join the chorus. Then, when they write the history, they were a full-fledged member of the justified opposition, even though they refused to enact any reform steps for years.
But that's not all the magic from Bob's hand.
If the new ABA rules are implemented, U.S. News will use our own law school statistical surveys in fall 2011 to collect and eventually publish the entire new richer and more detailed set of employment and jobs data from each law school for 2010 J.D. graduates. When we gather this richer data set, we will be able to make a more exact determination of how our ranking methodology will change.
Think about this for a moment. The new ABA guidelines already make clear what information will be collected. Granted, Morse and Co. don't know what the response rates will be or how reliable the state-wide surveys will be, but you'd think they could be working with the methodology prior to getting the data itself. After all, statistical methodology should be theoretically-sound independent of the data.
Is Morse being ambiguous and as commitment-free as possible so he can make methadological adjustments to keep the T-14 the T-14, or the T-6 the T-6? I'll leave you to speculate, but it's hard for a cynic like me to not make that assumption given the nature of the propaganda business.
I fucking hate that piece of shit.
ReplyDeleteI really don't have a problem with Morse re-publishing data available elsewhere and making rank out of it. What bothers me is that he claims that he has been "urging" change. What a lying piece of shit!
ReplyDeleteBob Morse is a player in the scam. He ranks schools, on idiotic criteria, KNOWING that naive students will take the scheme as gospel. He defends his system, even though he is aware that it is foolish.
ReplyDeleteAs I pointed out to several professors, on a panel, we have highly-educated men engaging in a stupid rankings game, dictated by a magazine. In the end, it does not matter if your school is ranked 58th, 67th or 73 best in the land.
Instead of pumping money into trying to reach a slightly higher rank, third tier commodes and fourth tier trash pits should simply market themselves as regional law schools - which is what they are, in fact. Of course, if the schools did this, Pussy Bob Morse will have a stroke.
Bob Morse a champion for change? Hahahahahahahahhahahahahaha! Right. That was a good one.
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