On 10/26/07, Michael Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yeah, but what's the basis for all these "criteria"? Isn't it > just a way of ginning up an apparent general faculty or > faculties whether or not they actually exist? Posing the > question in this elaborately way guarantees the answer. > Have you stopped beating your wife? Yes or no! >
Very well said. More generally what is up with this modern fetish of comparing and ranking everything, no matter how complex or unmeasurable? Like for instance rankings for the top colleges, most business-friendly cities, best automobiles? Is Yale better than Princeton because US News says so? Is New York better than London? Is vodka better than tequila? -raghu.
