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Originally Posted by Cephalic Trauma
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Not one person has shown me how Nebraska affects the other 11 schools and their credibility. Also, how do you correctly quantify the criteria. Let's take career opportunities, for example. This is a very complex component that rests not only in the hands of the university but also the area surrounding the university. Obviously, a New York school is going to have more opportunities than a school in Nebraska. Geography, specifically the surrounding area, makes the comparison inherently difficult. Further, how do you quantify the meaning of a job opportunity (profession)? Does a becoming a teacher=1 point, but a physician=5? What if the teacher considers his/her life successful doing exactly what he/she wants to do, while the physician wished he could become a prominent Biomedical researcher but settled on medicine. How does that factor into the quantification?
And finally, another one of the criteria (as a matter of fact, the only other criterion that carries any weight) is quality of teaching. How could this be accurately quantified when Forbes undoubtedly never attended a lecture at the University of Nebraska? And please, there is no way they had time to accurately profile every professor from over 600 schools taken into account.
I love how you hid behind the Forbes ranking and considered that "research". And two sources=objective evidence? I'll try to submit my paper to the International Journal for Eating Disorders with 2 articles of supporting evidence and see how they take it.
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You've been presented with evaluations\rankings from two credible publications to go along with the fact that they were stripped of AAU membership. Its not even like they were never members. They were in the AAU, and they were kicked out. We aren't trying to submit an article for publication here, so your taking the standard of evidence to its absurd extreme holds no water.
If you want to plant your flag in the ground and say that Nebraska is not number twelve with a bullet when it comes to academics in the Big 10, that's your prerogative. Good luck with that.