tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3993498847203183398.post640874210766260628..comments2024-03-28T09:19:27.451+00:00Comments on RevK<sup>®</sup>'s ramblings: Making a meme?RevKhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12369263214193333422noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3993498847203183398.post-51078529702074103272020-08-15T17:02:43.239+01:002020-08-15T17:02:43.239+01:00Relevant twitter thread: https://twitter.com/xtoph...Relevant twitter thread: https://twitter.com/xtophercook/status/1293841154782441474<br /><br />The error rate Ofqual notes for their own algorithm is > 30% *at best*. This is *useless*.Nick Alcockhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06590610308528769844noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3993498847203183398.post-73051703222131040172020-08-15T16:58:38.746+01:002020-08-15T16:58:38.746+01:00But if you need to get grades yourself rather than...But if you need to get grades yourself rather than plagiarising, cheating, or lying, you're not one of the people who *matter*, you're only a lesser sort. Sucks to be you but you're not even a Cabinet minister, you don't matter, we must keep the system stable.<br /><br />And we can't possibly change our minds because that might suggest that the system we made up on the back of a napkin while drunk (operating on the assumption that only people like our friends, who got all-As by paying a lot of money, mattered) wasn't the best possible system ever.<br /><br />(If this isn't actually what Williamson's reasoning is, he's doing a damn bad job of expressing himself.)Nick Alcockhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06590610308528769844noreply@blogger.com