Qiaochu_Yuan comments on Open Thread, April 1-15, 2013 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Qiaochu_Yuan 09 May 2013 07:15:04PM 2 points [-]

If you're at the point where you need to employ tricks to finish the grading at all, then I think this is unfortunately a secondary concern. Once you can consistently finish the grading, then I think you can start worrying about its quality.

Comment author: jooyous 09 May 2013 08:03:20PM *  1 point [-]

See, I always worry that the easiest way to get through grading is to just give everyone A's regardless of what they turned in. So I feel like you somehow have to factor in a reward for quality or that's what your system will collapse into?

Comment author: Qiaochu_Yuan 10 May 2013 04:43:58AM 1 point [-]

I would never be tempted to do that, but that comes from a strong desire to tell people when they're wrong which is not necessarily a good thing overall.