US News Peer Assessment Rating Controversy At Clemson Part III

[UCBChemEGrad]

<p>Here is Morse’s quote (it was from his own blog on USNews.com):

In terms of the reputation survey, U.S. News has safeguards in place to prevent strategic voting from affecting the results. We subtract a few of the highest and lowest scores from respondents before the results are calculated in order to prevent downgrading or upgrading from altering the results. We are confident that such voting practices by respondents are not affecting the results of the reputation survey in any meaningful statistical way.

<a href=“http://www.usnews.com/blogs/college-rankings-blog/2009/06/04/clemson-and-the-college-rankings.html#read_more[/url]”>http://www.usnews.com/blogs/college-rankings-blog/2009/06/04/clemson-and-the-college-rankings.html#read_more&lt;/a&gt;
Xiggi, all I can say it’s your word against his.</p>