<p>Jazzymom puts complete faith in the USNWR rankings yet expresses unbridled hostility towards Forbes rankings. She claims it isn’t because Forbes ranks Wash U. lower, but because their use of survey data makes their methodology “worthless”. It’s ironic that the social science professors at Wash U., routinely use survey results in their research. I doubt that she would contend that Wash U.'s social science programs are “worthless”. Visitor 1 don’t expect to hear anything other than carefully selected “facts” which support an unshakeable agenda of promoting Wash. U.</p>