While legitimately pursuing Huffington Post (for a work assignment, I promise), I came across this little nugget. According to research and data collection from a company called FindtheBest.com, just as many members of Congress attended the public universities of University of Virginia and the University of Georgia as members attended Stanford University. Not quite sure whether that elevates those public universities, pulls down Stanford, or says something far less provocative, but I found it interesting -- in a I-might-need-this-as-a-trivia-answer kind of way. Even more, The University of Texas - Austin has more than any of those schools. Only Harvard (duh), Yale, and Georgetown have more members of Congress counted as alum.
What about the method? Well, without a full statistical analysis, it seems that these differentials may even be underestimates. For example, says FindtheBest.com, the study only counted a member's school once -- so if the member attended undergrad at particular university and then also attended some other graduate or post-secondary program at the same school, the study only counted the school once. I suspect, if each program were independently counted, Harvard's numbers might be far and away above the others. But, then again, so could fun public universities. Thoughts?
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What about the method? Well, without a full statistical analysis, it seems that these differentials may even be underestimates. For example, says FindtheBest.com, the study only counted a member's school once -- so if the member attended undergrad at particular university and then also attended some other graduate or post-secondary program at the same school, the study only counted the school once. I suspect, if each program were independently counted, Harvard's numbers might be far and away above the others. But, then again, so could fun public universities. Thoughts?
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