My dad was a professor and would joke that the way a tenure committee made their decision was that they'd print out all your papers, put them in a folder, and t

My dad was a professor and would joke that the way a tenure committee made their decision was that they'd print out all your papers, put them in a folder, and then throw it down a stairwell. If your packet made it to the bottom, it would be an easy yes. If it made it halfway down it would be marginal. If it only made it down a few steps it would be a definite no. There's also the old aphorism that tenure committees can't read, but they can count.