A moment of raw hilarity from an Observer story on the gender-gap in
exam results:
"At the £11,000-a-year selective, private City of London Freeman's
School in Ashtead, Surrey, just 47 per cent of boys achieved A and B
grades compared to 81 per cent of girls. Headteacher David Haywood
believes this is to do with the intrinsic ability of boys rather than
the school's educational ethos."
I wonder how it would have fallen out if grading had been
norm-referenced rather than criterion-referenced. Seems like an
opportunity to put some recent arguments about the male tendency
towards statistical extremes to the test.
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,6903,1484284,00.html?=rss
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// Alas, this comparison function can't be total:
// bottom is beyond comparison. - Oleg Kiselyov
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