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Encore: The Tyranny of Letter Grades

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Edward Thorndyke, the Father of Educational Psychology

Dalton wanted to set the gold standard as being as far above average as possible. He sought to measure how much better than average some people were. Even invented a series of statistical techniques that we still use today. It's terrifying to read his writings where he's like, we can do this better than nature. We can select.

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