"jayjg" wrote
How do we know it is a good school?
Well, reading the page, it's a good school, even 'exclusive'.
How do we verify that? Whoa, infinite regress ahead. Let's say that having a school page that is misleading would call for more immediate editing?
Maybe he went to a school that was actually a traditional rival of this school, and someone is having a bit of fun at his expense? And how damaging is it really not to list the school they went to?
As I pointed out, he got to Cambridge. This is not easy: one in 200 of his cohort manage it, at most.
I wouldn't go to the trouble of having an edit war over this, myself. Better ways to spend my time.
But shifting the issue onto the result, which is microscopic at the margin, is a way of not addressing what is going on. (This was the warm-up example, too.)
Charles