Need Everyone's Help! Can Someone Verify This???

lostaccount
Sat, 12 Dec 2015 22:21:24 +0000

The following is actually incorrect, “Sidenote: “Ivy League” is a sports conference. That’s all the designation means. Sure, the schools that are part of the Ivy League are generally of high academic caliber, but so are lots of other schools.”

This is a fallacy that I see repeated many times. But the fact that many people believe this to be true does not make it so. The Ivy League is a sports conference because of the characteristics of the member schools. In other words, they were believed to be peer institutions. The group was not formed by happenstance. These were not the only possible schools for inclusion when the league was established. Rather, they were viewed as similar on important dimensions whereas other schools were not viewed as being similar to those that were included. So, yes it is a sport conference but no, that is not all the designation means. It also means that those included were considered to have more in common than those not included.