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Well, yeah, but they'd really be thrilled at the school where they announced C grade students would get an A. There is some benefit to society to matching up t
by dmurray 6y ago
Well, yeah, but they'd really be thrilled at the school where they announced C grade students would get an A.
There is some benefit to society to matching up the right students to the right courses, so it's not completely zero-sum. But the cost of getting it a bit wrong isn't terrible: some marginal students get to follow their dreams and study medicine, some others miss out on medicine and have to try their hand at accountancy.
- MaxBarraclough 6y agoThis discounts the sense of disenfranchisement that may result, which might be consequential, or that we may end up with inferior doctors.
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- michaelt 6y agoI would expect moderation to lower grades much more often than it would raise grades. After all, it's understandable why a teacher would over-estimate grades (assumption everyone else is going to do the same, and their kids will be relatively disadvantaged if they don't) and hence get moderated down. And it's understandable why a teacher would give spot-on estimated grades (honesty, valuing the credibility of their estimates) and hence not get moderated at all. But it's difficult to see why a teacher would under-estimate grades. So I suspect there are not many C grade students getting upgraded to an A.