"objective" if your goal is to rank people by publication in those conferences. (1) the difference between the best and worst papers in a venue is wild. (2) ht

"objective" if your goal is to rank people by publication in those conferences. (1) the difference between the best and worst papers in a venue is wild. (2) http://blog.mrtz.org/2014/12/15/the-nips-experiment.html http://blog.mrtz.org/2014/12/15/the-nips-experiment.html (3) different fields vary dramatically in how many papers they publish Plus I love how brain dead the word "objective" is. Every thing is objective. What objective function did you choose and does it optimize something that matters? This is a great example of a bad objective applied poorly to something that doesn't matter. ( Don't get me wrong, publication in these conferences is impressive, and depending on career stage I use a heuristic about my expectation of how many good papers you've published (and how good they are) when evaluating resumes, but this is just silly).