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There are a lot of problems with this approach and a regression in methodology. There are inherent problems with a standardized test and any form of exam. Yet

There are a lot of problems with this approach and a regression in methodology. There are inherent problems with a standardized test and any form of exam. Yet they are the best we have so far. Ideally, I think everyone should be allowed into the university. I have several friends who did poorly in high school. Back then they wanted to have fun, party, and were not interested in academic achievement. Once they got older, they decided to go back to school. They had to study hard and retake a lot of high school exams to get to the university. One woman is a somewhat famous and well respected lawyer. One is an electrical engineer with a great job. One architect, and the last one a psychologist. They all had the "intelligence" / endurance to do well academically they just did not follow the same schedules. People who did not do so well in high school but have passing grades can really perk up at the university. Of course, if you lot everyone in, most will fail. The distribution of who fails and who does not might surprise people. However, we do not have limitless resources to allow everyone who wants to a shot in whatever field they feel like. There is not enough physical space, there are not enough professors and teachers, nor labs etc Basing entry on standardized merit is in my opinion, the best we have so far. I wonder if a future were Batchlor degrees are possible to take online if the system could scale to allow everyone a shot.

MrMan 5y ago
Well I agree that trying to force everyone to a fixed schedule in time is not correct. If you divide your life into 20 or even ten year chunks, those are your batche sizes for endeavor. You are not the fixed product of one batch of applicants at one arbitrary point in your life. What things are scarce? Human resources to teach, capital to start businesses, bandwidth, computing power, physical security and time are some things I can think of that are scarce to varying degrees. I don't mind if I got shut out of the ivy league Lottery at 18 ad long as I can get what I need to succeed at 36 when I finally get my act together. At 36 as a male I might still have 40 or 50 years ahead of me to work on one or more career projects. To some extent we need to stop worrying so much about who gets the spoils of any given lottery and just try to make it possible for people to get more bites at the apple. The biggest problem isn't weeding out false positives and keep them from sullying Caltech or Stripe. Within reason this is a non problem. The real problem are the people with aptitude who never get educated and don't get time and physical security in enough amounts to train themselves up to be good candidates to win capital to start ventures that will help advance society. Tldr False negatives worse than false positives to all you evil gatekeepers

MrMan 5y ago

Well I agree that trying to force everyone to a fixed schedule in time is not correct. If you divide your life into 20 or even ten year chunks, those are your batche sizes for endeavor. You are not the fixed product of one batch of applicants at one arbitrary point in your life. What things are scarce? Human resources to teach, capital to start businesses, bandwidth, computing power, physical security and time are some things I can think of that are scarce to varying degrees. I don't mind if I got shut out of the ivy league Lottery at 18 ad long as I can get what I need to succeed at 36 when I finally get my act together. At 36 as a male I might still have 40 or 50 years ahead of me to work on one or more career projects. To some extent we need to stop worrying so much about who gets the spoils of any given lottery and just try to make it possible for people to get more bites at the apple. The biggest problem isn't weeding out false positives and keep them from sullying Caltech or Stripe. Within reason this is a non problem. The real problem are the people with aptitude who never get educated and don't get time and physical security in enough amounts to train themselves up to be good candidates to win capital to start ventures that will help advance society. Tldr False negatives worse than false positives to all you evil gatekeepers