Re:World's top 100 universities listed
by xiaoma on Thursday October 08, 2009 @12:46PM
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I was making a point beyond the general idea that rankings are stupid. These particular rankings, particularly of the California schools is terrible. There is a difference between ULCA and Berkley. Especially when looking at the metrics of very top level achievement, such as Nobel Prizes, the difference between #1 and #40 can be very large.
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Nobel Prizes are not a metric for achievement. That's insane. It's the most selective and irritatingly limited metric you could come up with.
What I'm trying to get you to understand, xiaoma, is that if ranking anything is stupid, then it doesn't make sense to point to a certain ranking system and say "Gee, that's stupid." Of course it's stupid. It's ranking.