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    To be worth using, a detector needs not only (A) not get very many false positives, but also (B) get…

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    Agreed with the other commentator. It is extremely unlikely that Pangram’s success is due to its cheating by reading metadata.

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PGR 2021 Preview: The Top 20 Programs in the Anglophone world

Below the fold are the top 20 programs in the Anglophone world; although most of this could have been inferred from past previews of national rankings, I thought it might be useful to see the aggregated listing (the numbers after each school's name are the mean, median, and mode):

1     New York University 4.7 5.0 5
2     Oxford University 4.6 5.0 5
3     Rutgers University, New Brunswick 4.5 4.5 5
4     Princeton University 4.4 4.5 5
5     University of Pittsburgh 4.2 4.0 4
6     University of Michigan, Ann Arbor 4.1 4.0 4
6     Yale University 4.1 4.0 4
8     University of Toronto 4.0 4.0 4
9     Harvard University 3.9 4.0 4
9     Massachusetts Institute of Technology 3.9 4.0 4
9     University of California, Berkeley 3.9 4.0 4
9     University of California, Los Angeles 3.9 4.0 4
9     University of Southern California 3.9 4.0 4
14     City University of New York Graduate Center 3.8 4.0 4
14     Columbia University 3.8 4.0 4
14     Stanford University 3.8 4.0 3.5
14     University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill 3.8 4.0 4
14     University of Notre Dame 3.8 4.0 4
19     University of Texas, Austin 3.7 4.0 4
20     Brown University 3.6 3.5 4
20     Cambridge University 3.6 3.5 4

 

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