Of course! If only we and thousands of other hiring committees would have thought of that! Obviously we read their work, their CVs, their teaching statements,

Of course! If only we and thousands of other hiring committees would have thought of that! Obviously we read their work, their CVs, their teaching statements, their research proposals, listen to their presentations, have personal meetings, etc. But if you read my original comment again I am sure you will notice that this is not what I am talking about. I state multiple times that these “objective” metrics that you now tout in response to my post are strongly correlated with prestigious institutions and supervisory pedigree. Thus, picking them apart is incredibly challenging.