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It’s not perfect, but it’s much more meaningful than GPA.
by zakk 9y ago
It’s not perfect, but it’s much more meaningful than GPA.
- ACow_Adonis 9y agoIs it? Understand I am in no way defending GPA, but I don't think it can be taken as given that one works better than the other without some evidence. GPA in practice has numerous problems on which I could write a whole other book, but where it fails it is often for social reasons which would equally apply to and be gamed by people under the "limited resource/grade to the curve" model. You will see people start to game away and politicise how the "stars" are awarded and distributed in both. In the later specifically, you run the real risk of having to start to fail genuinely good people and pass genuinely bad people. And there is no universal algorithm used by people in their subjective distribution of stars that allows one to compare or interpret the distribution of stars after the fact or between different "ecosystems".