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brinker | 11 years ago

There are a number of issues with this system:

1. The people providing the reviews are other students. How qualified are university students to decide if someone has the potential to be best in the world at anything? That classification is both highly subjective and would generally be expected to require some expert-level knowledge of the field the person is being judged in (which an undergraduate student is unlikely to have). 2. The students only seem to come from a small collection of schools, which unfairly disadvantages skilled students from schools not on the list. 3. The site entirely lacks filtering options, so I am unable to see the top people in the algorithms category, for instance. Furthermore, the listing order seems to be completely static, obscuring students who do not happen to get top placement.

In essence, this is a selection of students from select universities, chosen as the "best" through dubious methods, and then displayed in a static order that greatly advantages some of them over others.

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