I was reading in Cybernetic Forests, when I came across this quote from "The Map is Eating the Territory" by Henry Farrell, and it's all very technology/AI/academic stuff, but boy, this quote:
And don’t get me started on school grades. The public has been conditioned to believe they mean something - that it shows if the school is “good” or “bad” (whatever that means!). They are summarizations of summarizations out to about 5-6 degrees of separation.
And don’t get me started on school grades. The public has been conditioned to believe they mean something - that it shows if the school is “good” or “bad” (whatever that means!). They are summarizations of summarizations out to about 5-6 degrees of separation.