Yoav Goldberg Slams Academic Review: Ranking the Unrankable

Prominent NLP researcher Yoav Goldberg criticized how academia constantly forces researchers to rank incomparable items—papers, grants, candidates—into top-K lists without clear metrics. He noted that most candidates are equally qualified, yet such rankings decide careers.

2026-09-25 ~ 2026-09-25 · 3 related posts

• Yoav Goldberg on academia's core misery: ranking incomparable things without a metric — yoavgo · 2026-09-25
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