The magazine publishers revise their criteria and ranking systems each year mainly to shake up the order a bit. Does any one imagine these changes are motivated because the editors discovered some new and useful metric that had been previously overlooked or weighted incorrectly?
Why buy the latest issue if the rank order this year is pretty much the same as last year? The purpose of these rankings is create "information" that sells magazines. Almost as lucrative as publishing the latest array of swimsuits, a perennial interest among the sports enthusiasts who buy Sports Illustrated. :-) Claudia _____________________________________________ Claudia J. Stanny, Ph.D. Director Center for University Teaching, Learning, and Assessment Associate Professor NSF UWF Faculty ADVANCE Scholar Department of Psychology University of West Florida 11000 University Parkway Pensacola, FL 32514 Phone: (850) 857-6355 (direct) or 473-7435 (CUTLA) csta...@uwf.edu CUTLA Web Site: http://uwf.edu/offices/cutla/ <http://uwf.edu/cutla/> Personal Web Pages: http://uwf.edu/cstanny/website/index.htm --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@jab.org. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5&n=T&l=tips&o=37770 or send a blank email to leave-37770-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
