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Do people in general take these ratings seriously?

They seem clearly bogus in that they're by English-speaking press and happen to rate all the English-speaking universities top.

And if they're dumb in that way, probably they're dumb in other ways I haven't thought of too, right?

Is there some real signal in there?




> They seem clearly bogus in that they're by English-speaking press and happen to rate all the English-speaking universities top.

USNWR only ranks US universities. It’s not a world ranking. It doesn’t even include foreign in passport only Canada.


I didn't notice that. I was grouping it together with the Times/Economist/whoever else rankings.

It does make my criticism irrelevant in this case, good point.




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