Reading Response #5

The article ‘The Order of Things’ By The New Yorker writer Malcolm Gladwell discusses the ranking methodology among the ‘best’ automobiles, ‘best’ higher educational institutions, and as well the example of rankings of countries towards suicides; can be somewhat biased in some sense. For example when Gladwell was discussing towards the ranking methodology among automobiles, he mentioned that it was somewhat flaw in some sense because the sports cars were merely ranked based on a system that would rank an economical car such as SUV’s, sedans and whatnot. and like he mentioned in the article; car enthusiasts pretty much care more towards its speed and whatnot, rather than other factors. Whereas there should be a newer ranking system where automobiles of all kind combined should be ranked equally without biased. And same goes with universities which can be ranked biased to a sense which perform better based on certain sectors such as tuition fees, certain major programs and whatnot. Overall article is based on ranking systems that being established by certain group of individuals or individual where they rank it based on certain sectors that can be somewhat flawed in some sense and can also be misleading in some sense to certain group of people who see these such results.