Quote: (06-11-2015 08:49 AM)Basil Ransom Wrote:In theory that's a great idea, but I run into the issue of implementing these ideas all the time. There's a couple important components that need to be sorted before we can create this kind of rankings.
Someone needs to compile and rank universities based on their hostility to justice and the rights of the accused. I'm not talking about a forum thread, but a slick published product, that will garner attention just like established rankings like US News do. Make colleges compete to be the most just. It should be a big respected mainstream publication. The Economist, Princeton Review, The Chronicle, etc.
It could just be a reshuffle of another ranking, eg "The most and least just top colleges, ranked."
•What attributes determine "hostility to justice and the rights of the accused"?
•How to do we measure it?
•How do we get the data?
The simplest method, is raw count of due process allegations and final ruling. And I did some searching and apparently the MRA's have already done a lot of the leg work here. I'm not sure it includes all cases and there's some subjective bias about which cases are considered due process violations but it seems reasonably up to date. From there it is a pretty straight forward tabulation.
http://www.avoiceformalestudents.com/lis...l-assault/
The other potential metric is the Federal Title 9 violation investigations. I can't seem to find the number of investigations, it might be possible to get report from the government here http://www.ed.gov/news/press-releases/us...tigations. But if you want to dick around a bit, the Huffingtonshit, has the list of ongoing and completed title ix investigations.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/04/06...ef=college
Another method is to put up a twitter hashtag tracker for false rape and count college mentions. I already have a twitter tracker up for other stuff so that wouldn't be hard to modify. But there is a lot of data cleaning work needed to get all the permutations of college names. Though i found a few good lists for informal college names. The other problem is that there are limits on the amount of tweets you can receive under the free streaming api, 1k per a minute. If we get a really big tweet spike, tweets might go missing. The full pipe or even 10% tweet pipe gets pretty expensive pretty fast ($2k something).
The most difficult method would be to track all the court cases. There are fees to get those cases. Recap manages to host a good amount of them for free but the search function is shit. https://www.recapthelaw.org/ Or if someone had access to one of those law search sites, that could potentially be viable too but those are not cheap either.
Finally, unless we want to go with only one metric, after compiling all the data, we would need to create weights for the rankings. Not that hard, just basically think about what would the percentage breakdown would be.