Why don't more rankings work like this?
"Money moved to a star system over a numerical ranking last year — with universities earning between 1 and 5 stars — after editors decided it would be a better metric…'In a numbered ranking, very small differences in colleges’ scores result in different ranks, exaggerating the difference in performance.…' Money editors wrote"
https://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/news/university-california-campuses-rise-top-moneys-2024-best-colleges
Anirvan Chatterjee /
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