Oddbean new post about login | logout @Christmassy Merry Dude @owl. @Remi @Xeraser 🇮🇹 (moved to @xeraser@varishangout.n... I've never heard of a school with less than seven periods. Where the fuck do you live?
@Pensive Weeb @owl. @Remi @Xeraser 🇮🇹 (moved to @xeraser@varishangout.n... https://millardwestcatalyst.com/11863/opinion/blocking-out-success/ Block schedules are increasingly common nowadays.
7 periods and chillun are still dumb as fuck. What's the point? People who want to learn don't need 7 periods. Niggers shouldn't be kept with humans.
How dey fuk is America numba one lol. zerohedge.com/personal-finance/us-dominates-world-university-rankings
@Octopi Springfren 1903 @Pensive Weeb @BroDrillard @owl. @Remi @Xeraser 🇮🇹 (moved to @xeraser@varishangout.n... Number of universities in the US is large, so some of them are going to be ranked highly. That said, these rankings are kind of a farce. Rochester Institute of Technology being top 800 is kinda low, but I'm biased (that university *only* churns out Image Scientists, but it churns out very good ones). Similarly, UC Boulder is ranked *very* low for what it is. Also, Rensselaer Polytechnic not even top 200? Pomona not even being ranked? All of these are solid universities that have pumped out solid professionals - they have great reputations. Meanwhile, the top 10 are rounded out by Stanford? Harvard? Princeton? Yale? Diploma mills for the rich. MIT and CIT? Insane burnout schools that teach nothing. Vanderbilt being top 100 is a joke - it's a suicide mill. Purdue ranks similarly, and it's math department is an international joke (although maybe the chemistry department may be why it ranks so well...).
Published by ZeroHedge. I stopped reading at """far-right libertarian""", they're controlled opposition (read: grifters). https://i.poastcdn.org/53a5382206b5f05505ba5bd0113a4a7611d8aec5059f1bf9e45b28ce75d7bc10.png
@Xeraser 🇮🇹 (moved to @xeraser@varishangout.n... @Pensive Weeb @BroDrillard @owl. @Remi @Octopi Springfren 1903 No, the rankings are read from the Times Higher Education - https://www.timeshighereducation.com/world-university-rankings/2024/world-ranking#!/length/50/sort_by/scores_overall/sort_order/asc/cols/scores I'm criticizing the original source, not the punditry.
Universities are not ranked by the quality and knowledge of graduates. They are ranked by research output, how high various academics rank each other, what employers think of them, and how "internationally diverse" faculty and students are. It's a big circle jerk.
@BroDrillard @Pensive Weeb @owl. @Remi @Xeraser 🇮🇹 (moved to @xeraser@varishangout.n... @Octopi Springfren 1903 Right, but as far as that goes, I could *similarly* criticize these rankings for their poor assessment of research, academic standing, and annoyingly even diversity Again, Purdue has zero worthwhile Mathematicians remaining - the last one recently retired. It's famous for shunting a tenured professor's salary to zero *and* chasing off one of the few black professors it had. Meanwhile, UC Boulder and RPI's professors put out decent research routinely and do not similarly have these issues. Harvard, Yale and Princeton are famous for producing garbage students - I often see employers refuse to hire students from those institutes. The research might be reasonably good, but their reputation in industry is questionable. The rankings are poor even if you assume the things you're saying. The only thing I can imagine causing these rankings to be so skewed is bribery.
