Do articles about the professorial profession get particularly downloaded? Gordon and I speculated that the answer was yes, and Jeff Lipshaw has now done the research. Click over to his posts for the details, but the long and the short of it is that you might want to consider your own contribution to the burgeoning literature of becoming, dressing, or submitting papers like a law professor.
Might, that is. You still might get more mileage out of titling your work with curse words or getting it posted on Slashdot. And, though Jeff disclaims rigorous empiricism, I wondered if Mark West's use of the LLSV methods to predict World Cup success was really professorial navel gazing. Or is it an example of the effort to bring rigorous economic methods to bear on sport? A taste:
"In the 49-country specification, Rule of Law and French origin are significant; the correlation suggests that good law, and especially French law, leads to good soccer."
Good stuff. I got M. West another download. Maybe you'd like to do so as well and help prove Jeff rightish - or is it wrongish?
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