On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 10:33:13AM -0800, Melinda Shore wrote: > address. As I said I think that looking at the pool of > nominees who've accepted their nominations and comparing > it to the pool of people selected would provide one > very rough measure of bias (explicit or otherwise) in > one stage of the process. Speaking only personally, but as one of the fat middle-aged white men from North America whose mother tongue is English, and as someone who was selected by the Nomcom for something this year, I strongly support the above. It would not be a result to give us anything remotely like hard data, but it would be a result that could suggest further inquiry. And it oughta be cheap to generate. As long as we use it carefully, such a result could be useful. A -- Andrew Sullivan ajs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx