Talk:Tulane University Law School/Archives/2017
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Ranking
The figures in this statement are not corroborated by those in the link: Tulane Law School has struggled with its ranking since David Meyer was brought in as Dean in 2011. In 2011, the school was ranked 45, and it currently is at an all time low of 51.
- • The link supplies numbers from 2010 through 2018 only. Twice in that period the ranking has been 51. There is no corroboration of the claim that 51st is a tied all-time low.
- • The most recent 45th ranking, according to the information in the link, was 2010, not 2011.
- • "struggled ... since... 2011" ignores rankings of at least 47 (2012) and 46 (2015). As the graphs for other institutions in the link show, some volatility in rankings is quite normal.
The rest of the presentation is unacceptable for an encyclopedia entry on at least two counts.
- • Given that year-by-year variation in ranking is recognized by those who follow them as normal, law schools themselves do not, as a practice, "struggle with" small variations in rankings.
- • The wording is such that the notion of struggling with ranking (itself undocumented) presents a correlation of unknown significance as implicationally causation ("since David Meyer was brought in as Dean in 2011"). 96.42.57.164 (talk) 17:14, 8 August 2017 (UTC)