David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants

a paper published in a less competitive
journal. In other words, their numbers
aren’t measuring just how many articles
an academic can turn out. They are
measuring how many high-quality
articles an academic can get published.
6 The law professor Richard Sander
is the leading proponent of the Big Pond
case against affirmative action. He has
written with Stuart Taylor a fascinating
book on the subject called Mismatch:
How Affirmative Action Hurts Students
It’s Intended to Help, and Why
Universities Won’t Admit It. I’ve
provided a summary of some of
Sander’s argument in the notes at the
back of this book.
For example, one of the questions