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You bring up something that I thought about a while back but never took the time to do any research on. To what extent was grade inflation of young men during
by Teever 11mo ago
You bring up something that I thought about a while back but never took the time to do any research on.
To what extent was grade inflation of young men during the 60s and 70s common place due to the draft for the Vietnam war?
It seems to me that there's a likely possibility that professors and graders would be more willing to go easy on male students to prevent them from being sent to fight in Vietnam.
I wonder if anyone has done analysis on the grades from the era has has detected a measurable different.
- jleyank 11mo ago‘Nam ended in the early 70’s and I think the student deferment ended before the war did. But it’s a good theory. Much of academia was probably not on board. Perhaps the war edited out some classes of students that influenced grades?