The US News and World Report just released their annual College Rankings — and you should ignore them.
A reminder that last year their "Chief Data Strategist" somehow admitted in public that every year they screw around with the ranking algorithm until it gives results they like.
Source: https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-news-college-rankings-yale-law-fe24f0b2
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@ct_bergstrom To be fair, I swear "try different algorithms until we get a result we like" is a fairly common statistical practice...
