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Mapping Revisionist History - Coggle Diagram
Mapping Revisionist History
Context: 1980 Newsweeks, US News and World Report.
College Ranking Scheme/ Secret algorithm
How is it that a promotional gimmick from the 1980s turned into a fetish object for American higher education(Word Choice). PURPOSE
Source 1: Reed College Hackers
Statistics Practicum Course(Ethos).
They built a model trying to predict the score of a school. Reed should have been higher up
Where do I go from here
Peer Assessment score: a measure of reputation.
Robert Morse head of US News Ranking?
Surveys to rank the school on a scale of 1-5.
Yelp metaphor. Would I rate a resteraunt that Ive never been to.
Religious example. He became more defensive.
Rowan University new Source, because he couldn't get anywhere with Morse
Call the president of the school because of it's low score
Called up head of admissions at another school(Dean). High Ranking school. They feel unqualified
Used example that his cousin went to college so they rated it high
Another where they just walked around at another college(with intense music)
They went on and on about if their experience should count(problems of the ranking system through logic appeals).
REPETITION
Rowan makes hot sauce. Adds humor and satire. He is showing how absurd this is because he made it so that people would know who his school is.
Professor at Duke named Bill Mayu in scientific research.
(Source)
Difficult with bonds with historically black colleges.Bonds are loans that allow schools to pay for things.(bonds more attractive at better schools).
He decides to test it and it is a correct statement(20% harder for these schools to sell their bonds)
Comparing a spread to a reputation score.(Compare and Contrast Structure)
Diction used for this difference in bonds (Burden rigorous huge overwhelmingly)
I like this one, i don't like this one, i don't like this one." Emphasis using repetition.
Connects to the beginning point mythology vs methodology