Originally Posted by Archaea (Post 306315)

It's risen but it's fallen recently. Nice spin, Mr. Mullah.

If we're not a top ten in all departments we choose to field, what are we doing having such a department?

Originally Posted by ChinoCoug (Post 306316)

Let me explain noisy time series to you. This is a noisy time series:

1,2,3,4,5,6,5,4,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,9,9,10,11,12,13,1 4,15.

Do you get it now? Moves up and down but the long-term trend is up?

Sorry, Mullahs have to be Republican.

Originally Posted by SeattleUte (Post 306318)

Chino is an idiot. Debating him is a fool's errand. Chino, what do you do at John's Hopkins? Clean toilets? Are you some kind of a Ginea Pig?

Originally Posted by Archaea (Post 306317)

I understand "noise" Mr. Arrogant asshole, but I don't think it's noise, I think it's a reversal trend due to poor policies being felt by having GAs, not administrators as heads of the university.

Originally Posted by ChinoCoug (Post 306320)

You "think." I've got plenty of evidence this is not so.

1. Bateman is an administrator, he's been a Fortune 500 administrator all his life.
2. He raised a ton of money, which is what most University presidents are hired to do these days. . And that's huge component of college ratings. Dang lucky we have an economist at the helm.
3. He got people to graduate earlier, kicking up our artificially low deflated retention rate, another huge component of rankings.
4. Our ratings went up during Bateman's tenure, because, well, they went up, duh.

Originally Posted by MikeWaters (Post 307968)

Notice how the unemployment data points are red. That is because they are Bush's fault.