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This is a serious problem that I think is more widespread than just Harvard or the US. Schools giving higher votes necessarily compress the variance with mean t
by fedeb95 4y ago
This is a serious problem that I think is more widespread than just Harvard or the US. Schools giving higher votes necessarily compress the variance with mean toward the high bound. The real problem is that everything becomes too much sensible to noise: getting a vote a bit higher or a bit lower than the mean doesn't reflect how much I know more, but may make a significant change in society, i.e. who gets ahead in academics or jobs (thus perpetuating this high grading mechanism, probably).
- fedeb95 4y agoWhat the article doesn't mention, and that I have only anecdotical evidence for, is classes becoming easier. What may cause what is unclear, but probably it's a system so complex that pinpointing a single cause is hard
- fedeb95 4y agoIn that case a solution may be dropping grades altogether, exchanging them with some kind of written comment. This way "grades" can't be compared. Ultimately if you think about it, grades imply that knowledge can be measured, which isn't really something proven, and intuitively I'd say that knowledge can't be measured