On 21-9-2011 10:20, Invisible wrote:
>> Just a quick note: competitiveness is partly cultural.
>
> I hear China and Japan have more cooperative cultures, whereas America
> is the stereotypically competitive one. I have no idea whether this has
> any basis in fact.
>
>> In some countries
>> students compete with every other student and the percentage of students
>> that pass is fixed. In other countries you pass if you meet a certain
>> level.
>
> This is The Real WTF.
>
> A student's grades should *always* be based on fixed criteria. Otherwise
> the grades only compare you to your classmates. Well guess what?
> Employers aren't interested in whether you're better than your
> classmates or not. (You're probably never going to see them ever again
> anyway.) They're interested in whether you're capable of doing a given
> job. A relative grade doesn't tell them that; an absolute one could.

Correct me if I am wrong but I think relative grading is common in e.g. 
the US, Japan and Iran.

-- 
Apparently you can afford your own dictator for less than 10 cents per 
citizen per day.

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