U.S. News pulls Columbia University from its 2022 rankings
Per the article this came in response to questions raised by a Columbia faculty member critiquing the university's data. I thought that report[1] was actually more interesting than the original article.<p>As per the quote at the top of the report:<p>> Rankings create powerful incentives to manipulate data and distort institutional behavior for the sole or primary purpose of inflating one’s score...<p>It would be shocking to me if Columbia was the only institution that fudged its numbers a bit in pursuit of a higher US News ranking. Given how important that ranking has become in US culture, I wonder if it's time for the methodology to change to require audited/auditable metrics rather than continuing to allow self-reporting.<p>1: <a href="http://www.math.columbia.edu/~thaddeus/ranking/investigation.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.math.columbia.edu/~thaddeus/ranking/investigation...</a>