0.00 An Investigation of the Facts Behind Columbia's U.S. News Ranking (www.math.columbia.edu)
266 points by jxding 1455 days ago | 46 comments on HN | Neutral ~lite vlite-1.4
Summary ~lite Education Neutral
Investigation into Columbia University's ranking methodology
EQ 0.50
SO 0.50
TD 0.50
Lite evaluation by llama-4-scout-wai · editorial channel only · no per-section breakdown available
Longitudinal · 2 evals
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Audit Trail 7 entries
2026-02-28 11:02 model_divergence Cross-model spread 0.40 exceeds threshold (2 models) - -
2026-02-28 11:02 eval_success Lite evaluated: Neutral (0.00) - -
2026-02-28 11:02 eval Evaluated by llama-4-scout-wai: 0.00 (Neutral)
reasoning
Editorial investigating Columbia's ranking, no rights stance
2026-02-28 11:02 rater_validation_warn Lite validation warnings for model llama-4-scout-wai: 0W 1R - -
2026-02-28 10:58 eval_success Lite evaluated: Moderate positive (0.40) - -
2026-02-28 10:58 eval Evaluated by llama-3.3-70b-wai: +0.40 (Moderate positive)
reasoning
Investigative journalism on ranking manipulation
2026-02-28 10:58 rater_validation_warn Lite validation warnings for model llama-3.3-70b-wai: 0W 1R - -