USNWR Peer Assessment Scores look biased to number of grad students

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Xiggi,</p>

<p>If you are proposing to calculate a correlation from two data points, you should really take a course in statistics.</p>

<p>The assertion was that PA favored universities with large graduate student populations. I don’t think Hawkette was naive enough to suggest that it would be impossible to find counter examples. The claim was that this described the pattern of PA scores. Finding patterns is a classic statistics question. Collegehelp provided a statistical answer. </p>

<p>Finding a pair of LAC’s where the the relationship between SAT scores and PA is different than expected (but does correlate) is about as far off the point as anything I can imagine.

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<p>Thank you. I needed to fill a small opening in my schedule. I am so relieved.</p>