Maybe Forbes doesn't have all the answers

This writer picks apart the process and worthiness of city ranking lists, which we think are Forbes bread and butter and most always put Detroit at the bottom of the heap. The rankings don't matter because they are correct, they matter more because lots of people believe them.

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"All this is more than an intellectual exercise - stories about rankings are widely covered in the media (the Forbes list on L.A. job growth was all over local broadcast outlets and Web sites). Ranking stories are popular because, well, they're easy to report about and digest. That means a lot of people are drawing conclusions based on very limited bits of data."

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