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You would think you would ignore outliers when bell-curving. "Timmy missed the exam because her grand-ma is dead, so I'm giving him a 0 everybody else an extra

• rbanffy 5y ago
  > "Timmy missed the exam because her grand-ma is dead, so I'm giving him a 0 everybody else an extra 10%" Years later, police discovered evidence Sally replaced Timmy’s grandma’s insulin bottle contents with glucose in order to pass that test.
• ummwhat 5y ago
  Even worse, sounds like a perverse incentive to kill Timmy's grandma.
  • maximus-decimus 5y ago
    That's how I've always seen bell curving. In Quebec, to get into something like medicine they look at your z-rating, which if how far ahead of the bell curve you are... so at best it selects for people who pick easy classes and at worst for people who actively sabotage other students. To me it always sounded like a great way to end up with psychopaths as doctors.