Re: adjusting marks; W. Edwards Deming

[Muriel Strand]

i would definitely agree that grading and QC are fundamentally and
philosophically different in their level and kind of detail, and in the
correlation between numbers representing physical measurements and the desired
results.

however, if he recognized the essential difference in these 2 kinds of
evaluation, this tends to raise his credibility in my estimation.


>     If not, it follows (at the best) that he did not consider academic
> grading to have much to do with industrial quality control. Therefore, his
> expertise in the latter field should not give him much credibility on the
> former.
>
>     -Robert Dawson

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Muriel Strand, P.E.
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