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Re:High-achieving teacher sues state over evaluation labelin... by underpantsgnome on Monday November 03, 2014 @08:25PM (#8554702)
See, the thing is, people are already trying really hard to do that. Practicing programmers, even.
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Re:High-achieving teacher sues state over evaluation labelin... by Florin_Andrei on Monday November 03, 2014 @09:29PM (#8554877)
And it's hard to do that even when the desired outcome is just good code.

Now try and do it when the desired outcome is good people (education).

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Re:High-achieving teacher sues state over evaluation labelin... by underpantsgnome on Tuesday November 04, 2014 @09:26PM (#8560234)
Good point. Would you agree that: even if a phenomenon (for example performance of some sort of worker) is hard to model, we should still try, especially if that phenomenon provides enormous value to society?
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