Wednesday, August 02, 2006
When I Save Time and Effort, It Makes Me Happy!
We were both heartened and saddened to learn of a new, major study from the Social Science Research Network by Benjamin Barton. Barton conducted research of "unprcedented size and scope" covering 623 tenured or tenure-tracked law professors over four years, evaluating them on numerous performance criteria and teacher evaluations to answer the "age-old debate in legal academia: whether scholarly productivity helps or hurts teaching."
Think about this for a minute. Barton spent countless hours collecting data, pouring over the results, theorizing, analyzing, and writing, hours he will never get back in his life, all to reach what he terms the "counterintuitive" finding that there is no correlation whatsoever.
In the words of the Monz: Duh! Oh professor, why oh why couldn't you have just contacted us?! We would have put you in touch with the Monz who, in his munificient spirit, surely would have saved you this time and effort. Maybe he would have taken you over to the CSC for a healthy ham sandwich and baked lays, combined with some string cheese and fig newtons from home. He may have even given you the last of his Fuji apples (then again, he might not have!). You would have left satiated, healthier, and with four years of your life back!
We were both heartened and saddened to learn of a new, major study from the Social Science Research Network by Benjamin Barton. Barton conducted research of "unprcedented size and scope" covering 623 tenured or tenure-tracked law professors over four years, evaluating them on numerous performance criteria and teacher evaluations to answer the "age-old debate in legal academia: whether scholarly productivity helps or hurts teaching."
Think about this for a minute. Barton spent countless hours collecting data, pouring over the results, theorizing, analyzing, and writing, hours he will never get back in his life, all to reach what he terms the "counterintuitive" finding that there is no correlation whatsoever.
In the words of the Monz: Duh! Oh professor, why oh why couldn't you have just contacted us?! We would have put you in touch with the Monz who, in his munificient spirit, surely would have saved you this time and effort. Maybe he would have taken you over to the CSC for a healthy ham sandwich and baked lays, combined with some string cheese and fig newtons from home. He may have even given you the last of his Fuji apples (then again, he might not have!). You would have left satiated, healthier, and with four years of your life back!
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