[Corpora-List] corpora-list: publishing lists of accepted and rejected papers

[Harald Hammarström]

> Can you tell us all the name of an institution that publicly announces the
> ranking of unsuccessful job applicants? Just for curiosity, I am sure that
> many people would like to refer to this list of rejected applicants just to
> see how many people who would apply to such an insitution. I am also sure
> that it would be very interesting to do a quick check to find out where the
> rejected applicants now work and see how their current employer compares
> with the institution that rejected them.
>

In Sweden such records are indeed public (in the sense that anyone can
request copies, not in the sense that they are announced
publicly in newspapers or the like). Here's an example:
http://haraldhammarstrom.ruhosting.nl/2744_001.pdf
http://haraldhammarstrom.ruhosting.nl/2745_001.pdf

There's no question that this policy makes expert reviewers be more
objective. A great example is when I was in committee
where one of the foreign experts hadn't understood they would be public
(though this was in the instructions give to him) and gave
explicit credit to one applicant (but not the others) for his expected great
future work. He later defended this by saying that he
wasn't aware the review was going to be public...

Of course, openness does not make abuse impossible -- for example, there is
great leeway in formulating job announcements
and choosing expert reviewers, and senior people who favour a certain
candidate do play these cards. Another hiring committee
I was in received objections as a result of the fact that all judgements
were open to all. These objections were legitimate but
the committee chose to ignore them without explanation.

all the best,

H
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