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"11 out of 10 Stammys... despite the DRM speed bumps." Sorry ahead of time for being pedantic, but a score of a perfect 10 should mean that there are no issue

by jjcm 16y ago

"11 out of 10 Stammys... despite the DRM speed bumps." Sorry ahead of time for being pedantic, but a score of a perfect 10 should mean that there are no issues. That it is the definition of unobtainable perfection. The perfect e-reader would be one that never runs out of battery, weighs nothing but feels good in the hand, never breaks down, always has wifi signal wherever you are in the world, and who's display is indiscernible from a color lithograph print. This is by no means that. Is it an amazing device? Absolutely. But saying it's a perfect 10 (let alone an 11) is like saying that there's no way that it can be improved. Things can always be improved, saying otherwise is giving up on human creativity.

dagw 16y ago
a score of a perfect 10 should mean that there are no issues That seems rather arbitrary, and quite pointless. Why have a grade that is impossible to attain. Should an A+ only be given to students who's paper conclusively solves every open question in the field? 10 should simply mean best in class and very very good.
- riffraff 16y ago
  I believe that it should be given to a student answering perfectly to the given problem. If you give A+ it to the best in class it would mean that a mediocre student in a class of terrible students would get away with perfect marks all the time. Which is what happened to me until I got to the uiversity, (as the mediocre one) and I felt it was wrong all the time (though it did save me a lot of work :)
  - dagw 16y ago
    That's the point though. Very few questions (and even fewer interesting questions) have 'perfect' answers. Saying that A+ or 10 is only given for perfection is equivalent of saying A+ or 10 does not exists as a grade and the highest grade is A or 9. And then we start the discussion all over. Now (on a slight tangent) I'm in no way saying that best kid in the class should always get the A+.
AndrewDucker 16y ago
Nope, a score of 10 indicates that you're in the top 10% of all possible scores.

by jjcm 16y ago

dagw 16y ago

a score of a perfect 10 should mean that there are no issues That seems rather arbitrary, and quite pointless. Why have a grade that is impossible to attain. Should an A+ only be given to students who's paper conclusively solves every open question in the field? 10 should simply mean best in class and very very good.

riffraff 16y ago
I believe that it should be given to a student answering perfectly to the given problem. If you give A+ it to the best in class it would mean that a mediocre student in a class of terrible students would get away with perfect marks all the time. Which is what happened to me until I got to the uiversity, (as the mediocre one) and I felt it was wrong all the time (though it did save me a lot of work :)
- dagw 16y ago
  That's the point though. Very few questions (and even fewer interesting questions) have 'perfect' answers. Saying that A+ or 10 is only given for perfection is equivalent of saying A+ or 10 does not exists as a grade and the highest grade is A or 9. And then we start the discussion all over. Now (on a slight tangent) I'm in no way saying that best kid in the class should always get the A+.

AndrewDucker 16y ago

Nope, a score of 10 indicates that you're in the top 10% of all possible scores.