University competitions :to choose well in advance the winners is easy.

Here's the proof : in the Blog pronosticailricercatore.blogspot.com anyone can enter the names and then see how it went. So far, out of 160 contests, the odds are 114 matched. "The valuation of securities has no weight on the outcome Careers driven. Seats. Nepotism. When it comes to our universities these are the most common words. But apart from high-profile cases and prosecuted was not easy to demonstrate the mechanism that characterizes the repetitive university competitions in all the universities of Italy. To expose the widespread practice, the victory of internal candidates and easy to "guess" the winner, he succeeded the blog "Predict the researcher." Created "as a joke, without thinking of becoming famous by Andrea, a young mathematician who has transferred his brain abroad but dreams of returning to our country, the blog has become a phenomenon guessing over 100 selections and other 600 waiting for the results. And becoming the leader of many other similar initiatives.
First it was a pastime
"When I was in Italy at the University I was able to predict the winners of many competitions - says Andrea - actually making predictions is a very popular informal pastime,it is alleged that the winner deserves it or not. I honestly did not think that this initiative would become so famous, but now I've taken it very seriously in order to demonstrate what can be expected and that the valuation of securities has no influence on the outcome. " A demonstration of this last argument, Andrea complaint three case studies: one took place in Milan, one in Rome and one in Calabria. The three winners, in fact, at the time of the call (and perhaps beyond) did not have a PhD. The first, in Milan, had only two publications, in collaboration with internal member of the Commission. The second, in Rome,sported four publications while the contestants were up to 29 and the third is not even possible to go back to its scientific output. "Not only does not reward merit - Andrea says - but it is also unnecessary to change the rules because they still are circumvented." The solution, for the creator of the blog, would be "to suffer the consequences of hiring those who have taken over." A Swiss system, therefore, with continuous evaluation and step off of funds for those not reached expected levels in the contracts. "We should stop the shots of the teachers in salary based on performance of people who have taken - concludes Andrea - just so we could get results."

A problem all over the country
For now, the only results that are obtained Andrea competitions. Anyone can place his bets on the blog and show what happened after watching the trials. Awards were about 160 114 have matched the predictions, and often by more people. Like, there's the rub and it is clear to all. And Andrew is confident that they will prove even better the next 600 winners of competitions already predicted on the blog. For now, have been published only the results of 36 competitions, but in the coming days will be revealed all the others, that the fact Newspapers saw a preview. For now been met forecasts of 15 competition held at La Sapienza University in Rome, Italy 12 University of Milan, Pavia 4, 4 to Parma, 4 in Naples, Catania 3. A cancer that crosses the entire peninsula and that someone has finally decided to sue.