Timeline for Why are most of the top universities American?
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| Dec 26, 2016 at 21:59 | history | edited | Mico | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
typo fixes; streamlined some of the explanations
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| Feb 24, 2016 at 2:22 | comment | added | Mico | Why the down-vote? Please enlighten me. | |
| Oct 12, 2015 at 7:41 | comment | added | Mico | @NajibIdrissi - I would have thought that it was obvious from my write-up that I believe that a whole bunch of variables (including institutional rankings and the ability to attract top-notch faculty and graduate students) are determined jointly. That's also why I expressed the belief that conditioning one endogenous variable (ability to attract staff and students) on another endogenous variable (published rankings) can lead to circular arguments. However, regrettably, I may have failed in conveying this view fully. | |
| Oct 12, 2015 at 7:35 | comment | added | user9646 | Your response to the comment... You say "it doesn't explain how or why European and Asian universities have (finally) managed to rise along the rankings ladder in recent years": so what? It doesn't mean that it wasn't a contributing factor. | |
| Oct 12, 2015 at 7:30 | comment | added | Mico | @NajibIdrissi - Are you critiquing Emil's comment (about a potential reverse causality between rankings and the ability to attract high-quality staff and graduate students) or my response to the comment? | |
| Oct 12, 2015 at 7:16 | comment | added | user9646 | Regarding your last paragraph, I don't think it's incredible that a combination of factors is responsible for the way the rankings are... Of course if you take a single factor (here: "a prestigious university will attract brilliant researchers and thus rank higher, getting more prestigious") and assume it's responsible for the whole ranking you can easily deduce that it's wrong. But the only thing you have proven is that the single factor is not responsible for the whole ranking, which is not a really interesting conclusion. | |
| Oct 10, 2015 at 14:03 | history | edited | Mico | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
further streamlining of my thoughts
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| Oct 10, 2015 at 14:00 | comment | added | Mico | @Emil - I posted an addendum to address the questions you raised in your comment. | |
| Oct 10, 2015 at 11:41 | history | edited | Mico | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
further addendum
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| Oct 10, 2015 at 10:10 | history | edited | Mico | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
addendum to address Emil's comment
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| Oct 10, 2015 at 10:04 | history | edited | Mico | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
addendum to address Emil's comment
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| Oct 10, 2015 at 9:43 | comment | added | Emil | Could you give references or examples for the statement that universities outside the US are actively or passively suppressing cultural diversity? I'm not saying it's not true, I'm just interested. I thought the causation could as well be the other way around: "Because US universities have a high reputation they attract more international students and faculty." | |
| Oct 10, 2015 at 8:19 | history | answered | Mico | CC BY-SA 3.0 |