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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]An absurd analogy, but to play along- why invest in improvements in the factory that don't improve the output? How do you trick the best drivers into driving your substandard car??[/quote]

You can invest in the factory by making aesthetic changes or adding new buildings with big donor names, or reduce the manager/worker ratio because those are the inputs that the ranking is measuring. It all sounds good and will help your car get higher ranked, though they have dubious correlations with the actual quality of the car.

You can then increase the number of crashes your car is associated with (since that is also in the ranking) by only allowing drivers who have not been in crashes to drive your car, even though worse drivers might actually benefit more from the safety features of your car. In fact, this makes your car more exclusive since only the best of drivers can be approved to buy one.

See how ridiculous it is when we rank based on inputs vs. outputs?[/quote]

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