pros and cons of editor non-blind refereeing.

Interesting (fictional) dilemma raised by David Shoemaker concerning passing a dissertation for the sake of a job.

I suspect discussion will be interesting.

Douglas Portmore asks: What effect does pedigree have on hiring decisions? He proposes a way to eliminate that, and his hypothesis is that it does have an impact. He then suggests this is a bad thing. There's no discussion yet, but I think this could get interesting.

It'd be interesting to see whether this holds true of philosophy profs. Also, averages are one thing, but another interesting stat would be, what's the M/F ratio of, say, the top 20% of researchers. And of the bottom 20%.