The reason rankings exist is because often, in the end, a decision MUST be made. Are current rankings possibly worse than a random draw? - conceivably, in some

The reason rankings exist is because often, in the end, a decision MUST be made. Are current rankings possibly worse than a random draw? - conceivably, in some cases, but that doesn't have to be the case. Your concerns about ranking-context and the general difficulty of ranking are, however, well placed. Solving the ranking problem, for the general case, is a first-class problem on the same level of difficulty as computer vision or language processing. Personally, I think the world deserves a better approach to solving general ranking.