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Old 01-27-2008, 01:54 PM   #7
vossron
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"From the point of view of an NMS winner, ..."

This is a point of view for anyone, having nothing to do with being an NMS winner.

Consider these pairings from the list:

51 283 232 U Texas Austin
51 51 0 Dartmouth College

22 159 137 New York University
22 22 0 Williams College

20 60 40 Emory University
20 20 0 Swarthmore College

9 21 12 University of Mississippi
9 9 0 Wellesley College

6 10 4 Wake Forest University
6 9 3 Davidson College

If a naive HS student were instructed to use these raw numbers, she would draw false conclusions. Or is U Texas Austin (a fine school) five times better than Wellesley? Raw numbers imply such to the uninitiated.
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