Rankings

I find it interesting how we always rank things.

Ranking, prioritizing, and evaluating things are critical and important for every day life, but it seems that this “ranking” is always biased, whether we know it or not. Take for example food at a college cafeteria: known to not be great. Yet, for a starving college student late at night, that sandwich and pizza could taste the best ever made. Until the friend offers to drive to Chipotle, then all of a sudden that sandwich is old and the pizza is cold. Notice that the sandwich and pizza never changed, yet the college student would most definitely have a different ranking for the scenario based on the “before” and “after” of his friend’s suggestion. So what ranking do we chose to evaluate the quality of the sandwich and pizza? How do we evaluate cafeterias? How do we evaluate ours businesses? If everything is biased, is all our data skewed?