Giles comments on Just Try It: Quantity Trumps Quality - Less Wrong
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Actually I think the next step is to run the experiment. It's a perfectly good experiment - even though I'd expect it not to happen inside a real school, because the students would complain they weren't being graded fairly.
Concept is still important enough that I promoted it immediately.
I would expect it not to happen inside a real school because the school would be uninterested in improving their teaching via the experimental method. Of course I hope I'm wrong! (Anyone know of particularly enlightened schools?)
If I'm right it would seem a much harder problem to solve than the being-graded-fairly one.