{"id":648,"date":"2011-06-13T09:46:47","date_gmt":"2011-06-13T08:46:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/?p=648"},"modified":"2011-06-13T09:46:47","modified_gmt":"2011-06-13T08:46:47","slug":"last-word","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2011\/06\/13\/last-word\/","title":{"rendered":"Last Word"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Comments posted on the blog have suggested to me that I may not fully understand the methodology behind People &amp; Planet's league tables, and that I should look at them more closely. \u00a0 \u00a0This sounded all too likely, I have to say, and so I've had another trawl through the <a href=\"http:\/\/peopleandplanet.org\/green-league-2011\/table\">data<\/a>. \u00a0Having done this, I still think that there are problems. \u00a0Here are a couple of examples of why I\u00a0think that the '37 is excellent (but 36.5 isn't)' is a hard line to justify:<\/p>\n<p>1. If you take the number of solid green stars awarded, as opposed to the number of solid red exclamation marks, into account, there are anomalies: \u00a0John Moores get 0 stars but 2 exclamation marks (and gets a First), whereas UWE gets\u00a02 solid green stars\u00a0but 0 exclamation marks (and doesn't). \u00a0Perhaps the numbers are getting in the way of a finer judgement here?\u00a0\u00a0 NB, why doesn't Gloucestershire (with 7 solid stars and no exclamations at all) come top? \u00a0 On the face of it, it seems to be doing much better than Nottingham Trent), although none of Gloucestershire's\u00a0solid green stars are for \"performance\", which seems a problem in itself.<\/p>\n<p>2 \u00a0It still seems a long stretch from Gloucestershire (7 green stars) to Oxford Brookes (none), yet both get Firsts.<\/p>\n<p>3. Anyway, should any institution be given a First if it has no solid green stars for \u00a0\"Performance\"? \u00a0 This year, 23 are.<\/p>\n<p>Enough! \u00a0This is my last word on the tables (for at least 12 months).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Comments posted on the blog have suggested to me that I may not fully understand the methodology behind People &amp; Planet's league tables, and that I should look at them more closely. \u00a0 \u00a0This sounded all too likely, I have...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":237,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comment","category-news-and-updates"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/237"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=648"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}