tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post464159080460216420..comments2024-01-13T18:57:18.243-05:00Comments on Information Processing: Cooking the books: US News college rankingsSteve Hsuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02428333897272913660noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post-29218555138963142882007-07-13T15:00:00.000-04:002007-07-13T15:00:00.000-04:00More colleges need to have the balls to reject sub...More colleges need to have the balls to reject submitting data to US News. Or have a team from every ranked college create their own logarithmic adjustments, and flood the news with all sorts of crazy shit.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post-60317858672858791082007-07-10T16:20:00.000-04:002007-07-10T16:20:00.000-04:00Have you seen the forms US News sends out to schoo...Have you seen the forms US News sends out to schools soliciting information, to see if nothing else the raw data that they collect? Some of it raises questions of utility, as I recall. The especially subjective bits.<BR/><BR/>Very neat little old article, thanks for linking it!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post-38942871261575269162007-07-10T14:54:00.000-04:002007-07-10T14:54:00.000-04:00Sadly I'm not sure LIghtman counts as a counterexa...Sadly I'm not sure LIghtman counts as a counterexample. I think Lightman was an undergrad at Princeton, although he did his PhD at Caltech, probably with Thorne. <BR/><BR/>I wonder how intellectually honest any of the US News stuff is. I could simply make up a top 5 or 10 list each year which is as plausible as theirs. Somewhere inside US News there is a statistician who knows it's all a joke.Steve Hsuhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02428333897272913660noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post-28193678420915900842007-07-10T14:00:00.000-04:002007-07-10T14:00:00.000-04:00"...and I'd be surprised if The New Yorker has pub..."...and I'd be surprised if The New Yorker has published a story written by a Caltech grad..."<BR/><BR/>Alan Lightman.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com