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From: Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net>
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Subject: Re: Are 'we' too negative?
Date: Sun, 8 Sep 2024 17:50:42 -0700
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On 9/8/2024 3:06 PM, JAB wrote:
> On 08/09/2024 18:13, Dimensional Traveler wrote:
>> On 9/8/2024 3:04 AM, JAB wrote:
>>> On 07/09/2024 16:30, Dimensional Traveler wrote:
>>>>> When I did my O and A levels in the UK many years ago the system 
>>>>> was based around your score vs. the score of everyone else who sat 
>>>>> the exam. So, can't remember the exact numbers but it was something 
>>>>> like the top 5% got an A, the next 15% a B, then the largest 
>>>>> portion was C, and that was considered average, and the then D and 
>>>>> E were the opposite of B and A.
>>>>>
>>>> "Grading on the curve."  Used by some college/university teachers in 
>>>> the US as well.  Known to be inaccurate because a 30-100 student 
>>>> class is NOT going to have the same distribution of "smart" as a 
>>>> population of millions.  As is pointed out by many students. 
>>>> Teachers defense of that system usually boils down to "Life isn't 
>>>> fair, this reflects the way employers will treat you so get used to 
>>>> being screwed."
>>>
>>> This was done nationally so you are literally talking about thousands 
>>> upon thousands of sixteen/eighteen year olds sitting an exams. Being 
>>> in a class with either all the worst or all the best wasn't going to 
>>> change the grade you got.
>>>
>> So you could be the best of the worst, i.e. "the best" or the worst of 
>> the best, i.e. "the worst".  So someone who was a worst student/lower 
>> capability would end up with higher grades than someone in a different 
>> classroom who was a better student/more capable.  And the awarded 
>> grades would be a factor in hiring and promotions.
>>
> 
> No as it's done nationally so everyone in the entire country who took 
> the exam at the same time is included regardless of who their classmates 
> were i.e. your grade was dependent on how thousands and thousands of 
> other students did in the entire country.

So they actually grade the entire country on the curve?

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