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Originally Posted by JShephard
It did seem very helpful... until I saw "ranked first multiplying bonus" and "power score" ranking (with the top school having 81 points and anyone below 10th isn't even above 20.
There's nothing scientific about the data gathering, so why try to make the data mean more than it does. It's such a random sampling that you can hardly make any meaningful conclusions.
So yeah, somewhat useful - alongside a juvenile poorly designed pissing contest. You should add a few more categories: Weeks @ #1, Associated Press poll, warm weather multiplier, and great real estate market booster ranker intensifier.
DISCLAIMER: just answering a post here people, and he didn't put it on the dedicated thread.
Because it's fun and I've been bored! I like your category suggestions, I'll see what I can do haha.
I'll say it one more time--the big idea was just to have a place where people can look at ONE page instead of scrolling through 200 posts to see who has ranked their favorite program. Clearly people have been interested in it because over 1500 people have viewed it in the last 3 days.
I have to organize it SOMEHOW, and it seemed like a fun idea to come up with a "Power Score". Believe it or not, I put a lot of thought into the categories (and a lot of people have made suggestions). The reasons the "ranked first multiplier" affects the score so much is because someone else ranking their favorite program first is the single thing that affects another applicant most, i.e., I don't care if 30 people rank it second, as long as nobody else ranks it first, I'm golden! That's the idea anyway. Hence, program "1" with 5 people ranking it first (i.e., Carolinas) is way more "powerful" than a program which may have many more people ranking it but not as many ranking it first (i.e., Orlando) and will be harder to match into.
REGARDLESS, The whole thing is tongue in cheek, because it's just a self-parody of how we all act on SDN anyway.
EDIT: just saw your edit above. The reason it makes sense is because the AVERAGE ranking for UNC is lower (i.e., some people who interviewed there clearly didn't like it and ranked it low, whereas we have no evidence that this is true about Iowa). Also, Iowa has 8 PGY1 spots, and UNC has 10, which by definition makes it more competitive and harder for any one person to get a spot there. Indianapolis has 3 poeple that ranked it number one, but they are offering 19 positions. Maine Medical only has two number ones, but they are offering only 8, so 1/4 of their positions would already filled just by people on this forum. Hence, higher power score (though both are clearly in the upper tier so far).
Regardless, it's obviously silly to put too much stock in a few spots different, but the programs quite nicely stratify themselves into different groups. The more people that post their ROLs, the more significant the data becomes.
I've had fun, and I LITERALLY have nothing else to do with my time as I'm on vacation and my wife is working every day this week. It's this or the dishes....
