{"id":1717,"date":"2007-11-14T14:20:12","date_gmt":"2007-11-14T21:20:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/?p=1717"},"modified":"2007-11-14T14:20:12","modified_gmt":"2007-11-14T21:20:12","slug":"to-every-ranking-spin-spin-spin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/2007\/11\/14\/to-every-ranking-spin-spin-spin\/","title":{"rendered":"To Every Ranking, Spin, Spin, Spin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This morning I received a funny email from a graduate student here at UW, Nicholas Murphy, which made me laugh out loud (reproduced and linkified here with permission from Nicholas):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Subject: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.timeshighereducation.co.uk\/\">Times Higher Education Supplement rankings<\/a>: a study in spin<br \/>\nhttp:\/\/www.topmba.com\/fileadmin\/pdfs\/2007_Top_200_Compact.pdf<br \/>\nFor entertainment purposes, the same news story from different university publications:<br \/>\nHarvard:<br \/>\nhttp:\/\/www.thecrimson.com\/article.aspx?ref=520741<br \/>\nDuke:<br \/>\nhttp:\/\/media.www.dukechronicle.com\/media\/storage\/paper884\/news\/2007\/11\/13\/News\/Duke-Stays.13.In.Thes.Rankings-3096978.shtml<br \/>\nYale:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/yaledailynews.com\/blog\/2009\/10\/07\/viewers-of-les-records-may-be-fired\/22370\/\">http:\/\/www.yaledailynews.com\/articles\/view\/22370<\/a><br \/>\nStanford (I particularly enjoy the terse, annoyed tone here, especially given the first comment):<br \/>\nhttp:\/\/daily.stanford.edu\/article\/2007\/11\/13\/briefStanfordRankingFallsFrom6thTo19th<br \/>\nBBC generally:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/education\/7083292.stm\">http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/education\/7083292.stm<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>To which I will gleefully add my own spin: the west coast of the US gets no respect, damnit!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This morning I received a funny email from a graduate student here at UW, Nicholas Murphy, which made me laugh out loud (reproduced and linkified here with permission from Nicholas): Subject: Times Higher Education Supplement rankings: a study in spin http:\/\/www.topmba.com\/fileadmin\/pdfs\/2007_Top_200_Compact.pdf For entertainment purposes, the same news story from different university publications: Harvard: http:\/\/www.thecrimson.com\/article.aspx?ref=520741 Duke: &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/2007\/11\/14\/to-every-ranking-spin-spin-spin\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;To Every Ranking, Spin, Spin, Spin&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1717","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1717\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}