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Great concept and smart execution. A suggestion - rather than rating "A" through "E" why not change to the more recognizable (for US audience at least) scale o
by aresant 14y ago
Great concept and smart execution.
A suggestion - rather than rating "A" through "E" why not change to the more recognizable (for US audience at least) scale of "A through F" (A/B/C/D/F) which we're all mercilessly trained to recognize through years of school grades?
"E" as your worst rating confused me at first glance - could be interpreted as "Excellent"
- arnarbi 14y agoI'm not from the US, but doesn't F have a different meaning than A-D? I.e. it means you failed and have to do the test/project/whatever again? A-E is logical I'd say.
- atacrawl 14y agoI went to high school in Virginia where a failing grade was an E.
- lovskogen 14y agoI vouch for a more international 5-star system.
- hugoroy 14y agoactually the original inspiration was https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Union_energy_label https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Union_energy_label
- TazeTSchnitzel 14y agoYep. Especially since A/B/C/D/F is confusing to non-Americans. Here in Britain there's the Scottish and English systems, with different A-F or A-G scales.
- AJ007 14y agoIf stars, then with the lowest grade as zero. A-E seems appropriate to me, as an English speaker. For others perhaps not.
- nodata 14y agoThe stars are crucial: if we used numbers instead it would fail (some countries use 1 for best, some 5 for best).
- rmc 14y agoWait the US doesn't have an 'E'? (Is 'F' short for Fail? I thought it was just the continuation of the sequence). Regardless, at least A is best, B is worse than that, etc. which makes sense.
- archgoon 14y ago> Wait the US doesn't have an 'E'? (Is 'F' short for Fail? I thought it was just the continuation of the sequence) Well, apparently it's more complicated than that. I always assumed that the lack of E was so that there would be no confusion with the ESNU system (which a number of students used to have in elementary school, but then they switch over to the A-F system in middle school). Also, many countries outside the U.S., including non-english speaking ones, use the A-F system. Still researching the origin. I had previously believed that the A-F system was universal across the US college system, though apparently University of Arizona has the 'E' grade.
- anthuswilliams 14y agoAt the University of Utah, we have the 'E' grade also.
- adgar 14y agoDartmouth has E as well.
- gbeech 14y agoWell I think "it Depends." At my school we had E's both E's and F's where failing, but the difference was that with E's you could make up the class in summer school, with F's you had to repeat the class the next year, multiple F's would mean you had to repeat the grade.
- Lockyy 14y agoIf what you are saying is correct then it seems like the British a-level system is almost exactly the same in terms of grades. A* to E, and then an actual failure is a U, so as to not just be a continuation from E I assume.
- cabalamat 14y ago> why not change to the more recognizable (for US audience at least) Because most internet users aren't in the US.