Post 9y9ffDTR6XdBdgciZ6 by kragen@nerdculture.de
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(DIR) Post #9y53ClyPiOs80q4qbQ by garfiald@mastodon.social
2020-08-13T12:40:15Z
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so disadvantaged students are getting worse grades because the skynet algorythm downgrades people for going to schools which have historically produced lower grades. genius system
(DIR) Post #9y5UJwVJes1NSj6tuq by garfiald@mastodon.social
2020-08-13T12:42:09Z
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the classic factors of lower achievement werent enough. they literally had to build an algorythm out of old cardboard and duct tape that actively lowers your grades for being poor
(DIR) Post #9y5UJyENEpeoolCOmm by garfiald@mastodon.social
2020-08-13T12:47:37Z
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lol
(DIR) Post #9y5UJzZgF6IKz8AvdQ by garfiald@mastodon.social
2020-08-13T12:47:56Z
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for the non-brits, "independent" means "private"
(DIR) Post #9y5UK0g68j1SPKBZHE by dockers@godforsaken.website
2020-08-13T12:54:35Z
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@garfiald did u see this bullshit
(DIR) Post #9y5UK1yDKr6kPnfY9Y by Awizardofearthsea@todon.nl
2020-08-13T13:12:04Z
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@dockers wait, what the fuck, your grade changes based on what school you're attending? how do people try to justify this? @garfiald
(DIR) Post #9y5UK3VDdd6RAS7QEi by garfiald@mastodon.social
2020-08-13T13:23:44Z
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@Awizardofearthsea @dockers yeah lol. teachers were asked to submit predicted grades and to rank their students, if the grade is judged to high by the algorithm for a student of that ranking in that school, it gets marked down
(DIR) Post #9y6isnbcKKwUW4X50q by garfiald@mastodon.social
2020-08-14T07:49:11Z
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multiple non-british people replying to this with "source?": this is happening in the uk, it was yesterday's biggest story, most british people know someone who was affected or someone whose child was affected, because all final year students sit the same exams. since students couldnt sit exams this year, the government took their grades at mock exams and the grades their teachers predicted for them, and fed it through an algorithm that marked people down for being poorhttps://www.theguardian.com/education/2020/aug/13/who-won-and-who-lost-when-a-levels-meet-the-algorithm
(DIR) Post #9y76G1JNIjVBy1FPkW by kragen@nerdculture.de
2020-08-14T12:51:29Z
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@garfiald most people aren't in the UK
(DIR) Post #9y7CtZt5HXE8DmCDuy by queeranarchism@anarchism.space
2020-08-14T14:05:57Z
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@kragen @garfiald If it's a national news item in the English language, you can find it in one search engine query.If you can find it that easily, maybe don't go "source?"Do one basic search action before you ask others to do work for you.
(DIR) Post #9y7JZu7p1oNMsIeiHI by garfiald@mastodon.social
2020-08-14T15:20:53Z
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@kragen yeah, but personally, when i see a post referencing news i dont recognise, i usually click on the thread to see if the other posts in the thread will provide further context. if the multiple people who replied assuming i was talking about something going on in their own country had done the same thing, they would have easily been able to deduce that i was talking about british exams
(DIR) Post #9y9ffDTR6XdBdgciZ6 by kragen@nerdculture.de
2020-08-15T18:37:36Z
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@queeranarchism @garfiald I think you may be replying to the wrong person
(DIR) Post #9y9fqGMMiNzRm7aF96 by kragen@nerdculture.de
2020-08-15T18:39:37Z
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@garfiald I feel like people assuming that random posts pertain to things in their own country is kind of the same phenomenon as people assuming that whoever reads what they say will have heard about the local news they're writing about. in the US they call it "American Exceptionalism" but I don't think there's a term for it in the UK
(DIR) Post #9y9h7C4A21MDKshoEC by garfiald@mastodon.social
2020-08-15T18:54:01Z
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@kragen I am familiar with the concept. As it turns out, I do not intend my off the cuff commentary on current events to serve as reporting for a global audience. Most of the people who saw the post when I first posted it where my British friends who follow this account. You've failed to address the fact that replying to ask a question which could be answered by reading threaded posts exhibits a selfish expectation that others will work to inform you
(DIR) Post #9yDnOKhWYbOpOeVrzU by garfiald@mastodon.social
2020-08-17T18:07:46Z
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aaaaaand they just reversed it. Good work everybody!
(DIR) Post #9yDnONZTsxkSIZlzN2 by garfiald@mastodon.social
2020-08-17T18:18:27Z
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in retrospect, its very funny that they exposed that the algorithm was literally only introduced to punish disadvantaged students by confirming that it was unnecessary. It is also a very predictable attempt at using the opportunity to worsen inequality. And its failure is even more predictable, because most British parents would commit several murders to get their kids' A level marks raised
(DIR) Post #9yDnX14UuNRj7hOoUa by Awizardofearthsea@todon.nl
2020-08-13T15:26:30Z
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@garfiald wow, no way racism and classism can manifest in that system, no way that unfiarly penalizes students for all sorts of reasons... @dockers
(DIR) Post #9yDnpHmxUdcqBOuIxE by Dayglochainsaw@skull.website
2020-08-13T20:47:41Z
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@garfiald "you see where this algorithm runs into this other algorithm? isnt technology great. anyway thats why the poor should starve"
(DIR) Post #9yDnpplNB2YjYKQWCe by anarchiv@todon.nl
2020-08-14T11:11:12Z
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@garfiald I misread that as "they had to build an allegory" and if that ain't true
(DIR) Post #9yDnv74qEPQihP3BRo by xmakina@mastodon.technology
2020-08-14T09:31:59Z
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@garfiald how about making it so that challenging your assigned grade can potentially cost hundreds of pounds? Thatcher could only dream about this level of class war