This was driven by a tendency for MeanLatPeanut to be longer in the face than in the control conditions for the near stimuli only (Fig. 5; note in the figure the pattern is evident only for the higher-ranking half of the sample).
The UK's concentrated and competitive system provides the only two non-US universities in the top 10 of world rankings and half of the top 10 in Europe.
In worldwide rankings more than half of the top 100 universities, and eight of the top ten, are American.
The nations that generally rank in the bottom half of these WEF rankings are the ones that are typically considered as being "Third World," or poor.
Today, in the U.S., only 1 in 10 low-income kindergarteners goes on to graduate from college and, at a time when education matters more than ever, the U.S. high school graduation rate (currently 70percentt) has dropped from first in the world to the bottom half of rankings for comparable nations.
In the German and Spanish language areas, a layer of common global voices dominates at the top of the list, overlapping with the English-language global rankings, while voices not generally known beyond language borders concentrate in the bottom half of the rankings.
Only 35percentt of the firm's long-term assets were in the top half of Lipper rankings over the last year, a poor showing by any measure.
District 2, it turns out, is one of the city's best-performing, while the Bushwick district's test scores are generally in the bottom half of city rankings.
Baty said six universities, four from the US as well as Oxford and Cambridge, have dominated the top half of the rankings for the past five years, but added that other countries are making gains.
That started to change during the Second World War, when a quarter of the top officers voted, but as recently as 1976 more than half of high-ranking officers considered themselves independent.
Requiring public companies to disclose compensation for top executives — and, more recently, a requirement that this pay be compared to "peer group" companies — seems to have simply sparked a determination in the companies that paid below the average to bootstrap themselves into the top half of the rankings.
