Also, when you defy Trump, you’re kind of implicitly making fools of the elite law firms and universities and media companies and billionaires and Congress, which is fun.

Susan Collins thinks they've learned their lesson.

Trump is not omnipotent. He exists within a web of institutions. His authority is not unlimited. It appears that way largely because his allies occupy key places — Congress — that could provide a meaningful check. Important to understand his actual reach and the limits of that reach. (14/14)

Of course no one told the founders about Lerner Symmetry.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lerner_...

Just as I mention every year when I teach international trade.

Ok but please don't plot time series data with bars.

Maybe it's because they delete your preferences and personal data to protect your privacy.

I didn't say they can't. I said they make chi m the choice not to, and the grade they earn reflects their mastery it lack thereof.

I can't do the work for them any more than a doctor can quit smoking, eat healthy food, or exercise for their patients.

Also, your thought experiment doesn't flip the question how you think. When grades vary employers can conclude that a 4.0 student is a good student; when grades don't vary, good students appear the same as mediocre ones, increasing the value of other signals (school rank, internships, activities).

Everyone getting As is fine in a platonic ideal world where grading norms didn't affect effort or learning. In practice, two things cause grade inflation: lower rigor in what is taught and lower standards for work that receives an A, resulting in less effort and lower competency at the end.

Proud bots, oath creepers 3 perverters...

Rolling em up!

I'm tempted to agree, except pirate ships were often very democratic and egalitarian with respect to the distribution of spoils.
www.jstor.org/stable/10.10...

Thanks for doing the back of the envelope calculation. I remember thinking about the same thing but was too lazy to look it up.

This is the kind of intersectionality bluesky needs more of.