The medical school rating game

The Rating Game: Sentiment Rating Reproducibility from Text

Sentiment analysis models often use ratings as labels, assuming that these ratings reflect the sentiment of the accompanying text. We investigate (i) whether human readers can infer ratings from review text, (ii) how human performance compares to a regression model, and (iii) whether model performance is affected by the rating “source” (i.e. original author vs. annotator). We collect IMDb movie...

The Credit Rating Game: Evidence from a Strategic Game Model

This paper empirically analyzes the effect of competition on rating quality under the "issuerpay" compensation scheme. Using hand-collected data of collateralized debt obligations (CDOs), we specify the competition among credit rating agencies with a discrete game framework and test its influence on the rating quality. We find that competition raised the probability of choosing lenient rating b...

Graduate school: the board game

A Pre-School Character Rating Chart

The educational function of the nursery school differs considerably from that of the primary or secondary school. Nursery school education is concerned mainly with the development of character, of social behavior and of emotional adjustment and only to a lesser degree with the imparting of information and training in manual and linguistic skills. In schools for older children the educational ai...

The York Medical School.

FEW British cities have a history which is equal, either in interest or importance, to that of York. Through the centuries it has been of consequence in many spheres, and its place in medical history is not without significance. St. Leonard's Hospital, founded in the City in 936, was at one time the largest hospital in England. During the medieval years many small hospitals were in existence in...