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I didn't say that. Listen, if you want me to describe to you how biased these rankings are in favor of Western institutions, I'd be glad to do so. For example, a common metric is number of publications, for which the accepted journals are almost entirely Western (or US-based). And then you have scores that are based partially on (perceived) reputation, for which American schools will always come first. For the QS World University Rankings, this accounts for 40% of their final score.



> I didn't say that.

Sure ya did. Here's how I read it:

Poster: "Take a look at the universities rankings[1] -- how many schools in the top ten aren't British or American?"

You: "the US is a much larger country, and therefore has many more universities"

For such a position to hold water, the US would have to be larger in population than the entire rest of the world.




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