US News Tanking Article from 2000

tomslawsky
Tue, 10 Jun 2008 21:21:38 +0000

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.

[“Playing With Numbers” by Nicholas Thompson](http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/features/2000/0009.thompson.html)