> I'm not sure how US News is wrong. They have a methodology. People can put whatever stock they want into it. The point would be that ranking produced by the

> I'm not sure how US News is wrong. They have a methodology. People can put whatever stock they want into it. The point would be that ranking produced by the methodology is rarely interpreted in light of the methodology. Method follows aim and purpose, and so aim and purpose are that by which we measure the quality of a methodology. If the methodology doesn't produce a ranking of the expected value, then that's a problem, especially when it is passed off as having that value.