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The bottleneck isn’t data. It’s interpretation.
ByMichaelAt most small institutions, the problem is not that IR can’t produce data. The problem is that nobody has time to think about what it means – including the IR director producing it. I run a three-person IR office at a Lasallian Catholic university in the Bronx. We produce enrollment reports, retention analyses, IPEDS submissions,…
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Until You Know It Cold
ByMichaelThe first time I watched a large language model generate research output in forty seconds, I was not impressed by the quality. I was impressed by the volume, and by how quickly it could pivot when I changed the question. The results were plausible, competently organized, and largely superficial. What changed things was connecting to…
What if Nobody Is Lying About AI?
ByMichaelThe debate about AI’s effects has been running for three years and producing mostly heat. Not because the researchers are wrong. Because they are not studying the same thing. Here is the clearest version of what I mean. A major 2025 meta-analysis of 69 studies found that ChatGPT produces significant positive effects on academic performance,…
