I'm in the U.S. Even here, where the standard educational scale is alphabetical, I much prefer actual adjectives for the grades:
Excellent, Very Good, Good, Fair, Poor, Reject MJ works best when the voters, as much as possible, have a shared understanding of the actual meaning of the grades. With grading curves and grade inflation, I feel that the A-F scale is not good enough as a "common language" across our culture anymore. ~ Andy On Thu, Dec 6, 2012 at 2:54 PM, ⸘Ŭalabio‽ <[email protected]> wrote: > ¡Hello! > > ¿How fare you? > > Yesterday, I noted that Majority-Judgements does not work if we > have too many adjectives because we have only so many adjectives and voters > might confuse adjectives too close in meaning.. ¿Would an alphabetical > scale be acceptable?: > > In the United States of America, we grade students using letters: > > A+ > A > A- > B+ > B > B- > C+ > C > C- > D+ > D > D- > F+ > F > F- > > I have 2 questions grading candidates on this scale. 1 question > is for people not in the United States of America. The other question is > for everyone: > > People outside the United States of America: > > ¿Do you Understand this Scale? > > For everyone: > > ¿Is this scale acceptable to you? > > Followup question: > > If this scale is not acceptable to you, ¿why is it not acceptable > to you? > > With 15 grades, this scale is not very different from the > numerical ranges of 0 to 9 or negative -9 to positive +9. This raises the > question: > > ¿Why not just use the ranges 0 to 9 or negative -9 to positive +9 > instead? > > ¡Peace! > > -- > > “⸘Ŭalabio‽” <[email protected]> > > Skype: > Walabio > > An IntactWiki: > http://circleaks.org/ > > “You are entitled to your own opinion, but you are not entitled to > your own facts.” > —— > Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan > ---- > Election-Methods mailing list - see http://electorama.com/em for list info >
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