gwern comments on Negative and Positive Selection - Less Wrong

71 Post author: alyssavance 06 July 2012 01:34AM

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Comment author: gwern 06 July 2012 03:43:02AM 1 point [-]

Isn't the predictive part the interesting thing? I wasn't aware that bimodal grade distributions were unique to CS.

Comment author: ShardPhoenix 06 July 2012 05:15:00AM 0 points [-]

Well, their original paper claimed that (eg) math grades are typically a bell curve, whereas CS grades are typically bimodal (with examples from one university). But again, I'm not sure if this is something that's been rigorously demonstrated.