Just how ridiculous is Peer Assessment?

s_snack
Fri, 17 Aug 2007 12:29:18 +0000

My main issue with peer Assessments is that schools can suffer by association.
For example, when ranking Ivies, one subconsciously compared them to other Ivies. Cornell doesn’t look nearly as good when it’s standing next to Harvard.
But when ranking a school of similar quality, such as Emory, there’s no immediate temptation to compare it to Harvard.
Therefore, this reviewer might have given Emory a better rating than Cornell, but if they were actually to compare them head to head, they probably would have preferred Cornell.