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Re:Grade inflation: why weren’t the instructors all giving a... by superuser2 on Saturday August 13, 2011 @12:06PM (#2881209)
Were the majority of students attending Berkeley in the 30s and getting 2.35s (intellectually) worthless people?

Can a department only care about quality if it says most people don't have it? Even if that is true of the general population, who are you to say that's necessarily true of your classroom?

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Re:Grade inflation: why weren’t the instructors all giving a... by mbateman on Saturday August 13, 2011 @12:28PM (#2881281)
Grades are not binary. An average grade doesn't indicate worthlessness, intellectual or otherwise.

To answer a slightly different question than the one you asked: I don't think a department can care about quality of its students if it marks differently-qualified students as equal.

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