AT THIS POINT I TRUST RANKINGS AS MUCH AS ANY OTHER MEDIA PRODUCT: Yale Dean Finds ‘Something Fishy’ In B-School Rankings, Highlights Need For Greater Transparency. “The way Jain sees it, one of two things happened. Either the weights were applied to the data before it was normalized — a mathematical process that can be used to ensure that data sets are being compared on the same numerical scale — which would be a statistical error, he said. Or the ranking was calculated accurately, but after the fact some sort of ‘mysterious manipulation,’ as Jain put it, took place.”