Just how ridiculous is Peer Assessment?

hoedown
Fri, 17 Aug 2007 13:12:19 +0000

are a pretty good indication that the education establishment is loathe [sic] to permit these colleges to rise in the rankings.



Using the verb “permit” hearkens back to your repeated insinuation that respondents work in collusion to make sure that their answers collectively accomplish certain goals.

I think that’s ridiculous. Maybe their rankings are underinformed, or biased, but it has nothing to do with “permitting” rankings to stay at or reach a certain level, or plotting what someone’s ultimate rank will be once the thousands of ratings are compiled by the folks at USNews.