Re: DIS: Theses in the Agoran Context: A Query

[Kerim Aydin via agora-discussion]

On 1/25/2020 1:46 PM, Alexis Hunt via agora-discussion wrote:
> On Sat, 25 Jan 2020 at 16:42, Alexis Hunt <aler...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> On Sun, 19 Jan 2020 at 19:11, Kerim Aydin via agora-discussion <
>> agora-discussion@agoranomic.org> wrote:
>>
>>> When we last had a specific criteria (a loong time ago) it looked like
>>> this
>>> (from 2003):
>>>
>>>       The Degree of Associate of Nomic requires a Thesis of at least
>>>       150 words.  A Candidate who already holds an AN Degree receives
>>>       a credit of 100 words towards the Thesis requirement for any
>>>       higher Degree, unless the Candidate also holds a BN Degree.
>>>
>>
>> Actually, looks like Associate of Nomic long predates even that. ;)
>>
>> It looks like your A.N. thesis was submitted explicitly for A.N. without
>> any further discussion of the degree:
>> https://www.mail-archive.com/agora-business@agoranomic.org/msg27579.html.
>> Mine was awarded because it wasn't clear if my thesis was M.N. level and I
>> already have B.N.
>>
>> So it looks like you're the leading expert on the modern distinction
>> between A.N. and B.N.!
>>
> 
> Unrelated: anyone happen to know what D.N.Sci. is for?
> 
> Alexis

Looks like I wrote the Proposal 4865 that added it.  Proposal context:  in
2005-2006 we had a full complicated University system that had full faculty
positions and other University stuff.  We got tired of that, and P4865 (Aug
2006) replaced it with something simpler like we've got now.  But looks like I
added a new degree, too.  I can't find any discussion at all on the proposal
itself and I totally forgot I'd written it until now.

In more recent years, I'd thought about theses that had charts and graphs and
analysis - similar to what Jason Cobb did recently for eir Masters, complete
with methods and code provided:

https://mailman.agoranomic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/private/agora-business/2019-October/041565.html

(the only reason this was Masters and not Ph.D. Sci was because it was Jason
Cobb's first thesis, and we agreed that Ph.D. should follow the former
standard of reflecting previous academic work as well as the current thesis).

As another example, if I ever fill in the judicial archives, I was thinking
about writing one that plotted frequency of CFJs over time or something like
that.

-G.