Clemson--Gaming US News Ranking

xiggi
Thu, 04 Jun 2009 14:36:00 +0000

The article just reinforces my posted views of what a joke peer assessments are as a factor in USNWR rankings. My takeaway is that Clemson is doing what a lot of colleges are doing, they just had someone be brutally honest about it.



Expression of honesty about the abuses of the Peer Assessment are not novel. Countless school officials have admitted to use the PA to punish their foes and help their friends. While geographical cronyism is blatant, it is simply buried under the rug of “business as usual.”

It will take many more admissions of manipulation to convince the PA defenders that there is something rotten in a process that is as opaque as it lacks integrity.