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> they will not issue Ds and Fs and instead will give incompletes only Seems fine to me. Grades have always been totally arbitrarily. Just look at test scores
by NavinF 3y ago
> they will not issue Ds and Fs and instead will give incompletes only
Seems fine to me. Grades have always been totally arbitrarily. Just look at test scores instead
- mc32 3y agoSo why are they inflating As if grades don't matter and are arbitrary (I don't think they are). The A kid knows a whole lot more than the kid with Ds. Or put another way, for most knowledge economy jobs, I would prefer hiring unwatered straight A students over straight D students. If I needed burger flippers or landscapers, I probably would prefer straight D students --they just want to get their job done, few questions asked, and you let them bitch about the job and the economy. Does anyone here think China is going to water down their education and risk their competitiveness in hard sciences and maths?
- NavinF 3y agoI meant that grades have a low correlation with both general intelligence (g factor) and performance on specific jobs like software engineering. > why are they inflating As Because some people still think that grades matter > The A kid knows a whole lot more than the kid with Ds Sure but you can figure that out with just one leetcode question. After taking LC performance into account, there are ~0 bits of information left in grades
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