Rx for Chicago: an action plan for the new president

[mackinaw]

<p>quixotic, since you feel that the USNews rankings are based on clear criteria, I recommend that you consider this report by the National Opinion Research Center (NORC) prepared in 1997. To my knowledge this is the only study that the USNews actually ever conducted in an effort to validate their methodology: <a href=“http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/features/2000/norc.html[/url]”>http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/features/2000/norc.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>USNews basically rejected the report’s fundamental criticisms, but said it was interested in making improvements (none of which actually addressed the key criticisms in the NORC study): <a href=“http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/features/2000/norc.cary.html[/url]”>http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/features/2000/norc.cary.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;