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Grade Inflation. Princeton mathematician Jordan Ellenberg has an article about why grade inflation isn't so bad. The analysis is a bit flawed... [ArgMax Blog]
As pointed out in one of the selected Fray posts, Ellenberg fails to take into account the dynamicism of the inflation. Previous inflated grades create pressure for even more inflation in the future. A related problem is the assumption that all grades inflate together. Differing rates of inflation will penalize the students of certain classes.
There is also the assumption that new grade subdivisions magically spring into existence as the percentiles inflate. Either a) the subdivisions were pre-existing, in which case you have in fact lost precision by grouping precentiles into fewer divisions, or b) more subdivisions were created in response to grade inflation, in which case you've proved that a response IS needed to counteract.
12:46:11 PM  Categories: LiveJournal
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Read This ! Generation Wrecked. A non blogger friend just sent me this, a great Fortune magazine article about the "Generation Wrecked":
Ten years ago grunge musicians and college-age Cassandras who had never held a day job preached that corporate America would crush their generation's soul and leave them without a pension plan. Films like Singles and Reality Bites chronicled their transition from college graduate to Gap salesclerk.
A few years later the core of Generation X--the 40 million Americans born between 1966 and 1975--found themselves riding the wildest economic bull ever. Salesclerks became programmers; coffee slingers morphed into experts in Java (computerese, that is)--all flush with stock options and eye-popping salaries. Now that the thrill ride is over, Gen X's plight seems particularly bruising. No generation since the Depression has been set up for failure like this. Everything the dot-com boom delivered has been taken away--and then some. Real wages are falling, wealth continues to shift from younger to older, and education costs are surging. Worse yet, for some Gen Xers, their peak earning years are behind them. Buried in college and credit card debt, a lot of them won't be able to catch up as they approach their prime spending years.
[The FuzzyBlog!]
Bad news for my generation. A quote from an unamed college president on my situation:
'I don't know how much longer I can pull this off because people will start to ask, Is it worth this much money to be that much smarter?'
11:41:02 AM Categories: LiveJournal
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system.verbs.builtins.radio.macros.weblogPostForm changed on Sat, 05 Oct 2002 04:24:31 GMT: When posting a story from the news aggregator, don't decode entities in the story text and channel title through a call to radio.string.decodeEntities. The aggregator now does all the decoding needed, and any extra decoding here is double-decoding. [Radio.root Updates]
Here's another one I spotted, but they fixed it before I could try my hand at it.
1:56:42 AM Categories: Radio
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