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Re:Harvard Railroad Economics Exam (1906) by notahacker on Sunday June 16, 2024 @01:11PM (#40698557)
But half the questions here are less about ensuring competency to make decisions and more basic definitional stuff manual workers that didn't finish high school would presumably be expected to pick up after a couple of weeks on the job. Don't think we'd be raising standards if we dropped all the calculus and statistics knowledge requirements in a modern Econ course in favour of "name three web technologies" and "describe the difference between an Account Executive and and SDR"
Re:Harvard Railroad Economics Exam (1906) by Aeolun on Sunday June 16, 2024 @01:20PM (#40698619)
I think you might get a more sensible response if you change it to: Describe the differences between the two primary web architectures and the pro’s and con’s of each.

If you replace a good question with a bad one, regardless of the subject, you’ve made the exam worse.

The problem being that econ people will be in positions later where having that knowledge matter.