{"id":247,"date":"2011-05-14T12:25:14","date_gmt":"2011-05-14T16:25:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/centives.wordpress.com\/?p=247"},"modified":"2011-05-14T12:25:14","modified_gmt":"2011-05-14T16:25:14","slug":"redistributing-gpas-for-equality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2011\/redistributing-gpas-for-equality\/","title":{"rendered":"Redistributing GPAs for Equality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/centives.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/05\/051111_1505_redistribut1.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Robert Hanson posted <a href=\"http:\/\/www.overcomingbias.com\/2011\/04\/natural-hypocrisy.html\">an article<\/a> asking why, if people were willing to redistribute income, they weren&#8217;t willing to redistribute their GPAs? The Economist <a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/blogs\/democracyinamerica\/2011\/05\/egalitarianism\">responded to it<\/a> by looking at all the way that GPAs <em>are <\/em>redistributed in pursuit of egalitarianism. Some of the points include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>If income worked in the same way that grades do then income would be capped at $2 million a year in America. Why? Because grades, unlike income,<!--more--> have an upper limit.<\/li>\n<li>Grading is often done on a curve \u2013 explicitly rationing grades on a pre-determined grade distribution<\/li>\n<li>A 3.0 GPA in the worst school is worth less than 1.0 GPA in the best, yet both are treated equally<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>There are a few other interesting arguments, it&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/blogs\/democracyinamerica\/2011\/05\/egalitarianism\">worth a read<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/blogs\/democracyinamerica\/2011\/05\/egalitarianism\">The Economist<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robert Hanson posted an article asking why, if people were willing to redistribute income, they weren&#8217;t willing to redistribute their GPAs? The Economist responded to it by looking at all the way that GPAs are redistributed in pursuit of egalitarianism. Some of the points include: If income worked in the same way that grades do [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}