Bill Gates Says There Is Something Perverse In College Ratings
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Re: Bill Gates Says There Is Something Perverse In College Ratings
#2Unless the metrics used for the ratings are based upon things like per capita salary x-many years after graduation (broken out into specific fields of study and private/public sectors), then it all comes down to either a popularity contest, or a measure of how well a school's policies reflect the latest "progressive" education practices.
In other words, unless it shows what the student "gets" out of the experience when done, they are selling dreams.
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#3"Bill Gates, the world’s most generous and influential philanthropist."
Good thing this writer is unbiased.
Re: Bill Gates Says There Is Something Perverse In College Ratings
#4Couldn't this be just a side effect of what he advocated a few days ago in his WSJ commentary? [1]
By putting a lot of pressure on measuring things, people use the data that is easy accessible/comparable. Consequently they put a lot of effort into constructing the argument why these factors are the most important ones. Getting unskewed data is incredibly hard, especially when there is so much to gain from subtly manipulating the data.
[1]http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142412788732353980457826...
Re: Bill Gates Says There Is Something Perverse In College Ratings
#5"Bill Gates, the world’s most generous and influential philanthropist." Good thing this writer is unbiased.
This is probably objectively true.
Re: Bill Gates Says There Is Something Perverse In College Ratings
#6The currently most cited US college ranking is done by U.S News, which is heavily favored toward small private institutions from the east coast. I always find it irritating that a world renowned research power house such as UC Berkeley can't even make it into the top 20 ranking, where as schools such as Emory and Vanderbilt are ranked higher.
It ALMOST feels like an east coast old money circle-jerk. I guess with the exceptions of a few schools such as MIT and Stanford, areas such as Law/Medicine/Business/Finance/Liberal Arts are historically valued a lot more than science and engineering in this country.
That simply has to change if we want to lure more young people into going into those fields (which is what the future of this country needs). It's still unbelievable how many high school kids (remember, most people don't live in SV) think accountants are these powerful people in suits making six figures straight out of school and engineers are nerdy people who work in a basement and gets no money/respect.
Re: Bill Gates Says There Is Something Perverse In College Ratings
#7One of those ideas that's blatantly obvious, but which most will refuse to consider until someone 'big' mainstreams it.
I have a hard time reconciling the various useful things the Gates foundation seems to do with the tendency towards obnoxiousness that defines Microsoft.
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#8"Bill Gates, the world’s most generous and influential philanthropist." Good thing this writer is unbiased.
can you think of someone more generous and more influential in philanthropy ?
Re: Bill Gates Says There Is Something Perverse In College Ratings
#9The currently most cited US college ranking is done by U.S News, which is heavily favored toward small private institutions from the east coast. I always find it irritating that a world renowned research power house such as UC Berkeley can't even make it into the top 20 ranking, where as schools such as Emory and Vanderbilt are ranked higher. It ALMOST feels like an east coast old money circle-jerk. I guess with the…
Come on... it IS an east coast old money circle-jerk. And everyone knows it.
Re: Bill Gates Says There Is Something Perverse In College Ratings
#10"Bill Gates, the world’s most generous and influential philanthropist." Good thing this writer is unbiased.
just curious who you think is more generous?