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		thras on May 23, 2009 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: One Scientist's Crusade to Rewrite Reputation Rule... Yes. There is no pure objective measurement, but...You still need to hire some people and not hire others. Value judgments are not randomly distributed. Science is a built upon forging objective consensus out of individual opinion. It even works pretty well.

knowtheory on May 23, 2009 [–]

I'm not against ranking people, although i do think we need to keep in mind what the rankings really mean.

And, i'd say that the rankings work well enough, but they're certainly not perfect, as pointed out by the article.

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