Comments on: About The Master’s University #1 Right Choice Ranking

By: Daniel 'n' Terry Unruh

Daniel 'n' Terry Unruh — Fri, 07 Sep 2018 17:43:14 +0000

https://medium.com/the-masters-university/why-business-at-tmu-aa556ee6e4fd
Hmmm…I think if you are looking for them in a longer piece to be clear as to what this ranking means that this link isn’t exactly what you had in mind!

By: DoctorDJ

DoctorDJ — Wed, 05 Sep 2018 23:05:15 +0000

“For the Right Choice category, students were asked, “If you could start
over, would you still choose this college?” LBC earned a score of 9.46
out of 10.”

Sounds like a very brain-washed contingent of students.

By: ken

ken — Wed, 05 Sep 2018 14:44:50 +0000

In reply to Ford1968. Perhaps you should repost there if you want replies to your comments.

By: Voice-from-the-womb

Voice-from-the-womb — Wed, 05 Sep 2018 09:42:52 +0000

I’ve read a lot of education ranking press releases, and while these short blurbs from TMU would be fine as ledes for stories with further detail, by themselves they are missing the specifics to fill out a story and support what exactly this means. I fully expect as a reader to see some other explanation to dig deeper to: links to/quotes from what the WSJ said about these schools, etc. Without that detail, the blurbs do seem a bit misleading as to what the ranking means. Let’s just say that this kind of practice would not fly in my milieu.

Furthermore, it’s interesting that the wording is “right choice” – very authoritative, without any backup as to why other than the authority of WSJ. Don’t question – listen to us, listen to the WSJ, come here and soak up what we say about everything, because we are right. But maybe I’m over-exercising my English major analysis muscles on that one.

By: Ford1968

Ford1968 — Tue, 04 Sep 2018 22:53:16 +0000

In reply to Warren Throckmorton. Yes. Weird. Should have been on the post about Littman’s methodology. I don’t think it was user error...but, then again, I never do.

By: Erp

Erp — Tue, 04 Sep 2018 20:59:05 +0000

Given the relatively small size of a lot these schools, I wonder what the error bars were.

Also how was WSJ contacting the students? The university explicitly says that student email is not private.

By: Warren Throckmorton

Warren Throckmorton — Tue, 04 Sep 2018 20:37:02 +0000

In reply to Ford1968. This might be on the wrong post, eh?

By: Ford1968

Ford1968 — Tue, 04 Sep 2018 19:49:21 +0000

I share your perspective that convenience samples are not necessarily bad and can be enlightening so long as the paper’s discussion and conclusions transparently consider the sampling method. However, I completely understand the defensiveness of trans* advocacy groups. Academics with an agenda have tried to use research to cast aspersions about gay people in the not-so-distant past. In particular, prior to peer review, Jones and Yarhouse (2011) claimed that sexual orientation change was possible, and Regnerus (2012) claimed that gay parenting harms children. Both studies had methodological concerns with data collection; and both (initially) reached conclusions that that were aligned with the researchers’ religious worldview but were not supported by the data.