Friday, July 15, 2011

Grade Inflation

From the New York Times:

Posted by Mark at 3:58 AM

2 comments:

  1. These curvy lines seem a bit misleading to me. Are they some sort of automatic curve interpolation from Excel?

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  2. I can't see any good reason for the curves either, so, yeah, this looks like a case of bad graphing options in Excel. You see this a lot in corporate presentations.

    On a related topic, I don't care for the wording "function of time" here. "By time" or "broken down by time" would be simpler and more accurate.

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