Academic

First Takes on US News

By propertyprof

I've been absurdly--and I do mean absurdly--busy of late.   But US News is out and the feeding frenzy's begun.  (More than 1100 comments to this post at abovethelaw.com!  Now that's a feeding frenzy.)  Here are some initial takes on the tier one schools (N= 104)--more coming shortly.

The peer assessment scores:
maximum    4.8
median    2.80
minimum    2.1
Mean = 3.05
SD = 0.71
N = 104

The lawyer/judge assessment scores:
maximum    4.8
median    3.20
minimum    2.4
Mean = 3.35
SD = 0.61
N = 104

The correlation between the two assessments is very high (.96), but the 0.30 mean difference between assessments is statistically significant (t = 14.55, df = 103, p < .0001). Assessments of lawyers and judges are higher than those of academic peers.

Difference between assessments
maximum     0.8
median     0.30
minimum    -0.2
Mean = 0.30
SD = 0.21
N = 104

Full post as published by The Faculty Lounge on March 28, 2008 (boomark / email).