Podcast #3 "Lord of the Rankings"

Podcast title: Revisionist history
Episode: "Lord of the Rankings" (published 7/1/21)
Runtime: 37 minutes
Genre: Historical

SPEAKER:


This is told by Malcolm Gladwell. He explored different parts of history and tries to explain them. He analyses the overlooked parts of history.

OCCASION:


This one is about how a newspaper created a way to score colleges and rank them.

AUDIENCE:


They are talking to people who want to know more about the unknown and overlooked in history.

PURPOSE:


The purpose of the story is to delve deeper into the algorithm of the college rankings and how they don't really work.

SUBJECT:


This is historical

TONE: 

This has a monotone tone and really just states facts.



I didn't really enjoy this podcast. A lot of it was really really boring.  I really just talked about a whole bunch of facts and didn't really analyze the way I would have enjoyed it.  Another thing was the speaker was so monotone it felt like it was a robot and I just found it mind numbing and boring.  It was talking about how this news organization was in third place and decided to create an algorithm to rank colleges.  It was talking about the algorithm being inaccurate because they were asking other colleges to rate the colleges.  that would really work out because a lot of principles of other colleges haven't been to other colleges. One thing I did enjoy was that it did go into something I didn't know before. It was interesting to learn about and it was about a topic that I was more invested in then I may have found it more interesting.  This particular one was very boring to me. Overall I just found it really boring and really monotone.  I would give this a 2 out of 5 but that's just my opinion.


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