Public Eye: UC Davis study challenges magazine’s medical school rankings
A primary problem, the paper said, is that the magazine essentially is conducting an opinion survey. This results in wild swings in a medical school’s year-to-year standings… The UC Davis research paper, titled “Short-Term Stability and Spread of the U.S. News and World Report Primary Care Medical School Rankings,” was highly critical. It called one of the magazine’s assumptions “likely spurious.” The paper is not the first to question the rankings’ reliability. It turns out the lists – which rate colleges, law schools, medical schools and graduate programs – have attracted widespread skepticism.
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by Cynthia H. Craft, The Sacramento Bee.