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I think the idea is that people on the lower mode of grading would self select themselves out of a CS at the 100 most often. This reduces the bimodality for the
by sqeaky 10y ago
I think the idea is that people on the lower mode of grading would self select themselves out of a CS at the 100 most often. This reduces the bimodality for the 200 level. Where again students self select themselves out, then the 300 level bi-modality is even further reduced.
I think the 100 level is the place where such a bimodality is most likely to exist and investigation ought to be focused there.
- throwaway729 10y agoYour parent's point is that this hypothesis ("bimodality reduces as students progress through the curriculum" is possibly contradicted by the fact that many late-stage mathematics courses are strongly bimodal. (FWIW my analysis course was also bimodal.)
- ghaff 10y agoBased on some limited experience upper-level math and (I assume) physics probably have a stronger element of "get it" vs. "don't get it" than most majors. Way back when I was an undergrad a number of the math majors I knew considered it to be a relatively easy major and there were definitely people who pretty much breezed right through. At the same time, I was quite convinced that I could no more have successfully graduated as a math major--no matter how hard I worked--than I could have successfully flown through the air by flapping my arms. By contrast, I'm reasonably confident that I could have gotten through pretty much any other majors, whether engineering or something else.