Eugine_Nier comments on Stranger Than History - Less Wrong

52 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 01 September 2007 06:57PM

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Comment author: Eugine_Nier 03 April 2014 05:24:13AM -1 points [-]

Raw grades are notorious for being subject to grade inflation and otherwise depending on the specific high school.

Comment author: VAuroch 03 April 2014 10:27:54PM 1 point [-]

You'd think that, but when it's actually put to the test, they're found to be a much better predictor of academic ability than standardized methods. Grade inflation and the vagaries of the schools apparently all come out in the wash.

Comment author: Eugine_Nier 04 April 2014 03:00:48AM 0 points [-]

They're still subject to Goodhart's law.

Also, how were those tests measuring academic ability.