25 universities with the worst professors

A delusion is a belief held with strong conviction despite superior evidence to the contrary.[1] As a pathology, it is distinct from a belief based on false or incomplete information, confabulation, dogma, illusion, or other effects of perception.:hammer:
 
I am a statistician, and I stayed at a Holiday Express!

First and most important:

Statistics tell you nothing about an individual and an individual tells you nothing about statistics.....

This is something everyone forgets, never knew or can't comprehend, But ii is the first law of statistics...We call it random, independant sampling...

Prejudices are caused by not understanding this rule. (Also not getting eating by a lion. -not all sticking cracking behind you are caused by a lion)
but you survived more often if acted as if it was)
Most of the list you see are not random or independant nor can they be, so one has to understand the weakness/strength of the sampling before one should invest too much inot theior results. There is only one you and you hopefully change everyday (learn and experience) so your answers to the questions should change; you take a class from the prof; or go to that school, etc. Plus the school/prof changes so what was true today is may not be true tomorrow.

The LDAC is a good snap shot of what school produced the best officers but the statistics are only valid for schools that sent at least 3000 candidates to LDAC in a given year...OH wait no program sent that many, so I guess we can't use that either.

The only thing I am trying to tell you is "You and only you" control how you like or dislike a school/prof/ROTC etc etc etc If oyu find this hard to believe read Frankl book - "Mans search for meaning" --("Everything can be taken from a man but one thing," Frankl wrote in Man's Search for Meaning, "the last of the human freedoms -- to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way." ) This is what he learned in a Germany concentration camp!!!!


PS Don't get me wrong I love list more than most, but I try to understand there limits (they actually don't mean anything)
 
A more relevant List

Several years ago I read a Malcolm Gladwell book called Outliers. In it, he examined how super successful people, from Andrew Carnegie to Linus Pauling to Bill Gates to Wayne Gretzky became super successful. He listed Nobel Laureates in the Sciences by their undergraduate education. Where they are now is irrelevant since the MIT's and Harvards of the world can buy them once they are tracked for success.

But take a look at the following list of where the last twenty-five Americans to win the Nobel Prize in Medicine got their undergraduate degrees, starting in 2007.

Antioch College
Brown University
UC Berkeley
University of Washington
Columbia University
Case Institute of Technology
MIT
Caltech
Harvard University
Hamilton College
Columbia University
University of North Carolina
DePauw University
University of Pennsylvania
University of Minnesota
University of Notre Dame
John Hopkins University
Yale University
Union College, Kentucky
University of Illinois
University of Texas
Holy Cross
Amherst College
Gettysburg College
Hunter College

Along the same line, here are the colleges of the last twenty-five American Nobel laureates in Chemistry:

City College of NY
City College of NY
Stanford University
University of Dayton, Ohio
Rollins College, Florida
MIT
Grinnell College
MIT
McGill University
Georgia Institute of Technology
Ohio Wesleyan University
Rice University
Hope College
Brigham Young University
University of Toronto
University of Nebraska
Dartmouth College
Harvard University
Berea College
Augsburg College
University of Massachusetts
Washington State University
University of Florida
University of California, Riverside
Harvard University

Would be willing to bet that the overwhelming majority of these schools don't make the top 100 of the Forbes Rankings. It's a phony, baloney vanity magazine anyway.
 
Well... Forbes is more of a financial/business pub, but they do tend to stray... often.

Haven't seen a ranking in the Economist....


And then there's U.S. News and World Report which seems to have a list every other issue.
 
The question that is un-answerable is what would Mario Capecchi - Nobel Prize in Medicine - Antioch College
achived if he went to Harvard or State Party U.
 
A delusion is a belief held with strong conviction despite superior evidence to the contrary.[1] As a pathology, it is distinct from a belief based on false or incomplete information, confabulation, dogma, illusion, or other effects of perception.:hammer:

Ooooh, someone bought a Thesaurus.
 
Ooooh, someone bought a Thesaurus.

That would be a dictionary..A thesaurus would have produced a post like "illusion, hallucination, vision, mirage, figment of the imagination, fantasy, apparition, image.":shake:
 
That would be a dictionary..A thesaurus would have produced a post like "illusion, hallucination, vision, mirage, figment of the imagination, fantasy, apparition, image.":shake:

Well, I got at least one of them right.
 
I officially rate my students twice a semester. Once at mid terms and again at the end of the semester. :shake: Some students are happy and some are not. :yllol:

HaHa, I guess your right, Professors do have the ultimate rating system after all.

I have a very good friend that is an Oceanography Professor, on a dive trip he brought some papers to grade, he let me look them over and asked me if I could pick out which were written by students that never bothered to come to class, I found that to be very easy, he then began to "Rate his students"
 
That would be a dictionary..A thesaurus would have produced a post like "illusion, hallucination, vision, mirage, figment of the imagination, fantasy, apparition, image.":shake:

No, Jcleppe was right when she said Thesaurus. She's implying that you went and wrote your sentence and then substituted in bigger words for the smaller ones.

Frankly anyone can construe their vernacular to be that of a loftier pedigree if they so desire, but alas it does not derive much benefit for the originator of the post if the content still leaves much to be desired...
 
This looks like something cut and pasted from a dictionary, but I am probably wrong, before I went to school I could not spell engineer now I are one...

A delusion is a belief held with strong conviction despite superior evidence to the contrary.[1] As a pathology, it is distinct from a belief based on false or incomplete information, confabulation, dogma, illusion, or other effects of perception.
 
No, Jcleppe was right when she said Thesaurus. She's implying that you went and wrote your sentence and then substituted in bigger words for the smaller ones.

Frankly anyone can construe their vernacular to be that of a loftier pedigree if they so desire, but alas it does not derive much benefit for the originator of the post if the content still leaves much to be desired...

Stick with the K.I.S.S. approach. You know...Keep it simple _____:)

Why focus on the worst? Here's the other end of the spectrum.
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-505145_162-57570111/u.s-colleges-with-the-best-professors/
 
Oh my gosh, in one post you just turned me into a "She", my wife will never understand.

My sincerest apologies, whenever I see "Cleppe" I think of the Chaplain who just left the Academy last year who had that as a last name. SHE was definitely a she.

Give my apologies to your wife. :thumb:
 
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