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[quote=Anonymous]People are so gullible. They get mesmerized by numbers. They think that just because “someone” made a list & put a number next to each item, the ranking is necessarily (1) accurate (2) precise & (3) meaningful. It reminds me of those lists of the 100 most beautiful women in the world that various magazines used to publish, & 80-89 would often be indistinguishable from 1-10. Or the internet articles where they rank the 10 best war movies of all time, & some 5-hour silent movie from Uzbekistan is on there, but Full Metal Jacket isn’t. College rankings involve incredibly complicated things (colleges) being measured qualitatively using questionable criteria measured imperfectly & then weighted almost randomly. Then slap numbers on the results, & some people are willing to empty their bank account go to 15 instead of 25. Insanity. [/quote]
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