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From: gjb@cs.brown.edu (Gregory Brail)
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Subject: Re: Stanford wins ACM Programming Contest (light hearted flame)
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Date: 22 Mar 91 03:07:51 GMT
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In article <1991Mar21.223344.25349@neon.Stanford.EDU> andy@DEC-Lite.Stanford.EDU (Andy Freeman) writes:
>>The results of the ACM contest should tell you something about
>>the correlation between polls and reality.
>
>What reality did the ACM contest measure?

There's not always a correlation between the quality of a graduate
school and the quality of its undergraduates. And there's certainly no
correlation between a graduate school's "reputation" and how well a
few undergraduates do in a programming competition.

				-greg


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