Hi! My name is Finn, and I have a problem

Oct 17, 2007 08:58

I still read news about post secondary education and I hate opinion polling ( Read more... )

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ramou October 18 2007, 00:02:04 UTC
The problem with people is that they're people.

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platypus_herder October 18 2007, 00:09:46 UTC
Given that there is no objective way to weight the relative importance of the various evaluation criteria in such surveys, Paul Graham once speculated that the USA Today survey of American colleges (the equivalent document South of the border) was actually constructed by adjusting the weights until the right schools came out on top; thereby making it a very accurate indicator of the reputation of various schools among USA Today editors.

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