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Garbage in, garbage out.

What is used in divvying up a self-selecting cohort of undergrads performing on technical interviews in 2018 are the US News & World report rankings for graduate schools composed in 2014 "based on a survey of academics at peer institutions" (https://www.usnews.com/best-graduate-schools/top-science-sch... … and I don't think the lack of that link in the article is an accident).

Having a selective grad school doesn't mean much if anything for the standards and teaching in that school's undergrad program, especially for state schools with giant undergrad populations and relatively small grad programs.

For example, Illinois' grad school is selective and highly thought of by professors and thus it's treated as an "elite" school and students of UCSD's undergrad CS program are classified as "top 15".

Regardless, my alternate hypothesis would be "students of a specific level of confidence in their ability to pass a technical interview use interview.io for a limited period of time in which it provides value to them … that population of students receives a certain distribution of scores".



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