I present the most authoritative ranking of rankings every compiled. Ranked using very complex and proprietary algorithm.

1. US News World Report - how I chose my college, just went to the highest one I got into, and all my healthcare friends get excited about it

2. KLAS - best use of the color orange

3. Forbes 400 - move over bill gates, datapavel is coming to town

4. Michelin - hmm this is not a real ranking but the Michelin man is so lovable and food is yummy

5. Nielsen Ratings - if they don’t measure Netflix are they still relevant? 

That’s just a bit of fun inspired by the recent release of US News’s Rankings.

Do you value rankings or ratings? 

I live and die by Yelp stars and Rotten Tomatoes scores. I used to trust Amazon but that’s been hit or miss. 

Rankings are easily interpreted, I’ll take #1 please, but for some of them the methodology is so convoluted it’s basically a black box.

Ratings are more subjective, but typically if I see. 4-5 stars, I’m in. 

But even more insightful is seeing a distribution of all the scores. Though sometimes that can be a little hard to interpret without a decent stats background.

Anyways, I rank myself the #1 Pavel, five stars. You get five stars for reading this too. Five stars for everyone.

Do you value ratings or rankings or both? Are we too obsessed with both of these? How can healthcare better utilize rankings and ratings?

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