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Top Business Schools |
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The only reason... |
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04/25/2000 |
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The guy with the stats kills me. This is clearly way too much...that said, he has a point. In terms of what you're going to make, it doesn't make a whole hell of a lot of difference if you go to the "number 7" school or the "number 3" school. All the uppity bastards who had some freakish background and got into Harvard will say they're the best. All the guys who work out differential equations in their sleep and went to MIT will say they're the best. All the guys who went to Stanford and started a web company that reviews PDAs will say their the best (these guys really are fucked). My point is, it just doesn't matter that much. Oh, yeah, and to the dipshit that says "your variables aren't normally distributed so your mean and median are meaningless", you're probably still in High School beacause you obviously don't have a clue. The validity of mean and median is in no way dependent on the whether the data is normally distributed. If we were trying to forecast some other statistics based on mean and median..well then maybe. I think it's a moot point however because that data is most likely normally distributed.
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The only reason why I posted the stats was because some jerkoff tried to "dis" me because I stated that the US News rankings were "wack", in that they rank Harvard & Stanford over Wharton despite Wharton being ranked higher than both schools in half the functional categories. I am not here to argue the merits of either school because to graduate from any "top school" will insure that a recruiter won't throw your credentials in the trash. His argument was that I didn't understand the methodolgy of the rankings, and that the data points were significant. I simply wanted to prove to him how stupid it is to rely on a rankings because the schools recruit from a pool of candidates with identical data points, and that there was VERY little difference in the data points he held so dearly. The differences in the schools are purely subjective. I agree with you pal, it matters a lot less then anyone thinks.
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