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You're trying to refute a statement saying a trend exists by providing a single example which does not follow the trend.
by argv_empty 15y ago
You're trying to refute a statement saying a trend exists by providing a single example which does not follow the trend.
- olalonde 15y agoWell, the original statement didn't provide any example at all so I guess we're moving in the right direction.
- kingkilr 15y agoIf you want a counter example (because lord knows the singular of anecdote is data ;)), I was basically a straight A student in elementary school. I dropped out of my high school half way through my sophomore year, and though I've never looked at my final report card (by that point I'd decided I couldn't care less what my grades said) I'm pretty sure I failed at least two classes. The difference? I went to a really great elementary school and had teachers who were mostly concerned with learning to think, and not how much work I could churn out. In high school I honestly wouldn't have been surprised if there was a quota on how much a student's output needed to weigh.
- Dove 15y agoData > anecdote, but in my book anecdote > bald assertion.
- lotharbot 15y agoSeveral people in this thread have provided examples. As for me: I got great grades in elementary school, high school, college, and grad school. I got terrible grades in middle school, on purpose -- I knew they'd be forgotten once I got to high school, and I thought the busy-work required to get good grades was boring and didn't help me learn. The point-accumulation systems we call "grades" are a terrible proxy measurement for actual learning.