Sitting right on the lake-shore, the Oswego campus really gets dumped on.
http://www.syracuse.com/news/index.ssf/2014/01/top_10_snowiest_colleges_list_syracuse_oswego_crap.html From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, January 27, 2014 5:09 PM To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) Subject: RE:[tips] Which of us gets the most snow? It seems that AccuWeather doesn't take the work of these staff writers all that seriously. (The original source for this story is: http://www.accuweather.com/en/weather-news/the-10-snowiest-colleges-acros/22129751). Numerous commenters pointed out that schools with more snowfall than those on the list (and even multiple schools in the same town in which only one school is listed) are not included. To get this right, one would need a list of all institutions of higher education (in either the US or Canada or both if you are limiting it to that geographic location) and then the average annual snowfall of the cities in which these schools are located. I think the writer of this article may have started with colleges for which there were fun winter pictures to be had and only looked up the snowfall for those campuses. SUNY Oswego actually ties Syracuse for #2 in the latest version of the Accuweather article I linked above. It seems that Karl's link goes to a report of an earlier version of this Accuweather article before they started making corrections. The corrections are actually hopeless, however, because there is no way this list is going to be salvaged by a few changes here and there. I found this gem in the Comments section of the Accuweather article: "AccuWeather.com<https://www.facebook.com/AccuWeather> Thanks to all of you for great suggestions. Yes, there are plenty of snowy schools out there, but they couldn't all make the list. We will take your thoughts into consideration." My thoughts are that when you report a list of the snowiest colleges on a weather website with "Accu" in the name, you better be basing it on actual annual average snowfall. Rick Dr. Rick Froman, Chair Division of Humanities and Social Sciences Professor of Psychology Box 3519 John Brown University 2000 W. University Siloam Springs, AR 72761 [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> (479) 524-7295 http://bit.ly/DrFroman --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13060.c78b93d4d09ef6235e9d494b3534420e&n=T&l=tips&o=33555 (It may be necessary to cut and paste the above URL if the line is broken) or send a blank email to leave-33555-13060.c78b93d4d09ef6235e9d494b35344...@fsulist.frostburg.edu<mailto:leave-33555-13060.c78b93d4d09ef6235e9d494b35344...@fsulist.frostburg.edu> --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [email protected]. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5&n=T&l=tips&o=33559 or send a blank email to leave-33559-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
