emmadilemma commented on Weapons of Math Destruction by Cathy O'Neil
Remarks on beleaguered university presidents forced to chase U.S. News rankings, "dedicating enormous energy toward boosting performance in fifteen areas defined by a group of journalists at a second-tier newsmagazine."
This 2016 book neatly predicts the crises of the last year — and cautions that these rankings are just one example of widely applied, opaque, caustic algorithms.