political science job rumors » Topic: 2012 Placements http://www.poliscijobrumors.com/topic.php?id=61134 Things may get weird. Trying to fix the problems. en-US Fri, 24 May 2013 01:57:23 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.1-alpha-2539 anon on "2012 Placements" http://www.poliscijobrumors.com/topic.php?id=61134&page=6#post-390718 Sat, 31 Mar 2012 22:34:05 +0000 anon 390718@http://www.poliscijobrumors.com/ Regardless of how you measure it, Rochester placement has been dismal lately.

]]> anon on "2012 Placements" http://www.poliscijobrumors.com/topic.php?id=61134&page=6#post-390633 Sat, 31 Mar 2012 07:17:03 +0000 anon 390633@http://www.poliscijobrumors.com/ Because they come from a large department?

]]> anon on "2012 Placements" http://www.poliscijobrumors.com/topic.php?id=61134&page=6#post-390631 Sat, 31 Mar 2012 07:12:55 +0000 anon 390631@http://www.poliscijobrumors.com/ Why would someone want to measure placement in absolute numbers?

]]> anon on "2012 Placements" http://www.poliscijobrumors.com/topic.php?id=61134&page=6#post-390581 Sat, 31 Mar 2012 01:31:11 +0000 anon 390581@http://www.poliscijobrumors.com/ But not at stickball!

]]> anon on "2012 Placements" http://www.poliscijobrumors.com/topic.php?id=61134&page=6#post-390579 Sat, 31 Mar 2012 01:30:13 +0000 anon 390579@http://www.poliscijobrumors.com/ All these schools suck at football.

]]> anon on "2012 Placements" http://www.poliscijobrumors.com/topic.php?id=61134&page=5#post-390479 Fri, 30 Mar 2012 16:57:15 +0000 anon 390479@http://www.poliscijobrumors.com/ "Placement usually measured in absolute, not relative, numbers."

Then it usually measured incorrectly.

]]> anon on "2012 Placements" http://www.poliscijobrumors.com/topic.php?id=61134&page=5#post-390476 Fri, 30 Mar 2012 16:37:27 +0000 anon 390476@http://www.poliscijobrumors.com/ ...just by random error.

]]> anon on "2012 Placements" http://www.poliscijobrumors.com/topic.php?id=61134&page=5#post-390475 Fri, 30 Mar 2012 16:29:11 +0000 anon 390475@http://www.poliscijobrumors.com/ Except that it makes more sense to measure it as relative. If you have 30 people in a grad cohort, you are bound to place 1-2.

]]> anon on "2012 Placements" http://www.poliscijobrumors.com/topic.php?id=61134&page=5#post-390456 Fri, 30 Mar 2012 14:51:11 +0000 anon 390456@http://www.poliscijobrumors.com/ Placement usually measured in absolute, not relative, numbers.

]]> anon on "2012 Placements" http://www.poliscijobrumors.com/topic.php?id=61134&page=5#post-390305 Thu, 29 Mar 2012 18:20:42 +0000 anon 390305@http://www.poliscijobrumors.com/ Cal's placement is overrated, esp. if you consider the size of the program

]]> anon on "2012 Placements" http://www.poliscijobrumors.com/topic.php?id=61134&page=5#post-390294 Thu, 29 Mar 2012 17:58:36 +0000 anon 390294@http://www.poliscijobrumors.com/ Columbia and UCLA have had better placements than Duke, UCSD, and NYU over the past 5 years. This year is the exception.

]]> anon on "2012 Placements" http://www.poliscijobrumors.com/topic.php?id=61134&page=5#post-390286 Thu, 29 Mar 2012 17:49:04 +0000 anon 390286@http://www.poliscijobrumors.com/ how do we rank placing in a polisci department at an R1 to placing in a department of international relations/school of international affairs, at an R1?

]]> Anon on "2012 Placements" http://www.poliscijobrumors.com/topic.php?id=61134&page=5#post-390270 Thu, 29 Mar 2012 17:14:16 +0000 Anon 390270@http://www.poliscijobrumors.com/ Princeton, Yale, and Michigan almost always have the weakest placements of the bunch. Stanford, Harvard, and Cal almost always have the strongest.

]]> anon on "2012 Placements" http://www.poliscijobrumors.com/topic.php?id=61134&page=5#post-390269 Thu, 29 Mar 2012 17:07:07 +0000 anon 390269@http://www.poliscijobrumors.com/ ^ Duke, NYU and UCSD have had better placements over the last few years than some of the schools you mention.

]]> anon on "2012 Placements" http://www.poliscijobrumors.com/topic.php?id=61134&page=5#post-390253 Thu, 29 Mar 2012 16:28:34 +0000 anon 390253@http://www.poliscijobrumors.com/ CHYMPS placements over last few years:

S > H > C > P > M > Y

Columbia and UCLA are probably in the middle of the pack. Why aren't they clumped with CHYMPS?

]]> anon on "2012 Placements" http://www.poliscijobrumors.com/topic.php?id=61134&page=5#post-390252 Thu, 29 Mar 2012 16:25:42 +0000 anon 390252@http://www.poliscijobrumors.com/ Has Rochester been doing well lately in terms of placement?

]]> anon on "2012 Placements" http://www.poliscijobrumors.com/topic.php?id=61134&page=5#post-390251 Thu, 29 Mar 2012 16:14:38 +0000 anon 390251@http://www.poliscijobrumors.com/ But they had horrible placement last year too!

]]> lb on "2012 Placements" http://www.poliscijobrumors.com/topic.php?id=61134&page=5#post-390081 Wed, 28 Mar 2012 18:04:03 +0000 lb 390081@http://www.poliscijobrumors.com/ All programs have their ups and down. Rolling average is more meaningful than a single year.

]]> anon on "2012 Placements" http://www.poliscijobrumors.com/topic.php?id=61134&page=5#post-390060 Wed, 28 Mar 2012 16:54:28 +0000 anon 390060@http://www.poliscijobrumors.com/ Rochester's done pretty bad this year, right?

]]> anon on "2012 Placements" http://www.poliscijobrumors.com/topic.php?id=61134&page=5#post-389055 Thu, 22 Mar 2012 21:35:39 +0000 anon 389055@http://www.poliscijobrumors.com/ Re: Rochester, I didn't mean sad as in "I'm shedding a tear," but rather as in "Lindsay Lohan is just sad."

Rochester = Lindasy Lohan

]]> anon on "2012 Placements" http://www.poliscijobrumors.com/topic.php?id=61134&page=5#post-389049 Thu, 22 Mar 2012 21:16:15 +0000 anon 389049@http://www.poliscijobrumors.com/ The Michigan person who got a job at UCSD is not a political scientist

]]> anon on "2012 Placements" http://www.poliscijobrumors.com/topic.php?id=61134&page=5#post-389048 Thu, 22 Mar 2012 20:27:34 +0000 anon 389048@http://www.poliscijobrumors.com/ Great. Happy to see path breaking work is recognized!!

]]> the UCLA guy on "2012 Placements" http://www.poliscijobrumors.com/topic.php?id=61134&page=5#post-389047 Thu, 22 Mar 2012 20:24:37 +0000 the UCLA guy 389047@http://www.poliscijobrumors.com/ Yes, I did get a job. And yes, I am most definitely amazing.

]]> anon on "2012 Placements" http://www.poliscijobrumors.com/topic.php?id=61134&page=5#post-389044 Thu, 22 Mar 2012 20:14:50 +0000 anon 389044@http://www.poliscijobrumors.com/ Speaking of which... did the UCLA guy get a job? He's amazing, and it'd be a gross injustice if he didn't

]]> anon on "2012 Placements" http://www.poliscijobrumors.com/topic.php?id=61134&page=5#post-389043 Thu, 22 Mar 2012 20:02:18 +0000 anon 389043@http://www.poliscijobrumors.com/ According to the wiki, Michigan placed people at Indiana, Toronto, and UCSD

]]> anon on "2012 Placements" http://www.poliscijobrumors.com/topic.php?id=61134&page=5#post-389042 Thu, 22 Mar 2012 19:59:02 +0000 anon 389042@http://www.poliscijobrumors.com/ where did UCLA and Michigan place people this year?

]]> Anon on "2012 Placements" http://www.poliscijobrumors.com/topic.php?id=61134&page=5#post-389041 Thu, 22 Mar 2012 19:48:17 +0000 Anon 389041@http://www.poliscijobrumors.com/ I think you meant meant.

]]> anon on "2012 Placements" http://www.poliscijobrumors.com/topic.php?id=61134&page=5#post-389039 Thu, 22 Mar 2012 19:36:07 +0000 anon 389039@http://www.poliscijobrumors.com/ ^ I think you meat second year

]]> anon on "2012 Placements" http://www.poliscijobrumors.com/topic.php?id=61134&page=5#post-389032 Thu, 22 Mar 2012 18:52:39 +0000 anon 389032@http://www.poliscijobrumors.com/ These 2 individuals had postdocs and this was their second week on the market. An important variable to consider.

]]> anon on "2012 Placements" http://www.poliscijobrumors.com/topic.php?id=61134&page=5#post-389031 Thu, 22 Mar 2012 18:49:32 +0000 anon 389031@http://www.poliscijobrumors.com/ A placement at Emory is not bad at all. Not sure about the other one though.

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