It seems part of our genome.
Competition is the America way.
We have top 10 everything. You name it, we rank it. But for the most part our endless classifying, grouping and arranging is nothing but high-grade hokum, mixed with a lot of bunkum. When recently looking at a number of rankings of our presidents, I found myself asking whether this was utter nonsense or useful analysis. A closer look at polls and studies on the topics yielded some interesting insights.