<p>It’s from 2000, but highlights what i think US us news’s most despicable practice : selectively standardizing or not standardizing data. Take a look towards the bottom at what happened when they decided to be fair in 1999 and CalTech was #1. The more people are aware of these practices, the more of a chance I hope there is that US News will tweak their methodology to be statistically valid, which right now, it isn’t.</p>
<p>[“Playing</a> With Numbers” by Nicholas Thompson](<a href=“http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/features/2000/0009.thompson.html]"Playing”>http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/features/2000/0009.thompson.html)</p>