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Does the date when a student hands in a piece of work (which seems to be what they are measuring) corrolate with when they actually did the work? It seems to m
by Starwatcher2001 8y ago
Does the date when a student hands in a piece of work (which seems to be what they are measuring) corrolate with when they actually did the work?
It seems to me that a student who did the work early, but then sat on it for some reason (maybe to polish it), is very different to one who did the work at the last minute - even if they handed it in on the same day.
- Bartweiss 8y agoThat was one issue that stood out about the claim that most NSF proposals are submitted shortly before deadline. Even if you have a proposal 95% complete months early, there's no real benefit to submitting it, and some value to waiting - to polish, or perhaps to amend the proposal for a changing world. I've certainly seen professors go back and rework proposals at the last minute because someone else had published related work they needed to account for. The other issue that came to mind is that people finish work near deadlines with procrastinating, because work takes time. If there are two proposal deadlines per year, and the average person takes ~6 months to write a proposal, you'd see a normal distribution ramp-up of submissions, and never see the declining count because those people missed the deadline.