Osler's Razor

This intriguing study shows where law professors went to law school. Here are the top schools at producing pointy-headed academics (according to Brian Leiter, who seems to be pretty accurate in such things):

1. Yale University (3.68)
2. Harvard University (1.94)
3. University of Chicago (1.51)
4. Stanford University (1.33)
5. Columbia University (0.84)
5. University of Michigan (0.84)
7. University of California, Berkeley (0.77)
8. University of Pennsylvania (0.67)
9. New York University (0.62)
10. Duke University (0.51)
10. Northwestern Univeristy (0.51)

The numbers represent the total number of profs from that school divided by the graduating class size from that school. Thus, since Yale has an average class size of about 150, and there are 552 Yale grads teaching law, the index is 3.68 (552 divided by 150= 3.68).

Apparently, I'm the product of a law professor factory. I can't say there is an easy explanation for this; the education at Yale isn't that different from what a student receives at, say, Stanford or Columbia, but Yale still cranks out almost twice as many profs as second-place Harvard (sorry, Bates).

Still, I will concede that certain other schools (Harvard) do produce superior foosball players.