One more thing about the THE reputation rankings

I have just remembered something about the THE reputation reputation rankings that is worth noting.

THE have broken out the scores for teaching reputation and research reputation for the first fifty universities and this gives us a chance to ask if there is any meaningful difference between teaching and research reputation.

The answer is that there is not. The correlation between the teaching and the research scores is .986. This is so high that for practical purposes they are exactly the same thing. The 15% weighting given for teaching (actually "postgraduate supervision") reputation may be unrelated to undergraduate teaching or even to taught master's teaching.The emphasis on research in the THE world rankings is therefore even higher than THE claim, at least at the top.

This has already been pointed out by Alex Usher of High Education Strategy Associates of Canada who found a correlation of .991 in 2013.