Desroko said:
Wharton is a prestigious business school. The alumni say it's the most prestigious. A Wharton (or other Ivy League) education is a useful tool when you've said something flat-out wrong or ridiculous, because then you can just wave it in the air and brush aside criticism, like Oxford and Cambridge grads do in your country. |
The only problem is that anyone with a brain knows that prestigious schools give about the same education as any other legit school out there. Their only real difference is the environment and the people (connections) you meet there (rich people with rich parents) opening avenues for better jobs that are not available to folks like me who went to a not so prestigious school like UCSD. Ivy league schools haven’t provided a "better" education in nearly half a century now. There is no difference between the guy with a Physics degree from Harvard or one from a low rank school like SDSU. So to Jasmine if he/she is still around, waving that flag just shows how un-educated you really are. Besides a business degree is hardly prestigious no matter where it came from (no offense to all you business majors out there).
Anyway, I think its well established that NGW numbers are all guesses. I seriously doubt that they have the technology there to track sales every 3 seconds. The cost for something like that would be enormous since you would need to interface directly with every retailer or be on the phones 24-7. It is also well established that VGCharts and NPD are both not 100% accurate nor is there a "source" for 100% accurate numbers anywhere. All we know is that they each keep decently believable numbers and that VGCharts backs their numbers up in many ways. NPD on the other hand doesn't give us much to work with aside from their final numbers as far as I know.
