<p>Harvard College has produced way more U.S. Presidents, U.S. senators, cabinet members, and U.S. Supreme Court justices. I’ve posted some of these statistics elsewhere. It’s true that Yale has had a few prominent politicians recently, but this is what’s called a “noise”, not the signal. In the real world, there are always statistical fluctuations, and one cannot decipher a pattern based on a very small numbers sampled during a short period. </p>
<p>Once in a blue moon, Yale might actually do something better than Harvard, let’s say more Rhodes scholars in one year every ten years, but this is simply a meaningless noise. If you look at a decade, or two decades, the real pattern emerges. As much as Poster X loves to relish these little anomalies and talk about it forever on this board, they don’t mean a darn thing.</p>