see url: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7SwxOKBfLw
Discriminatory algorithm responsible apparently. It doesn't
discriminate against the upper classes but the rest of us for some
reason...I notice...funny how that always happens...must be a
coincidence...couldn't be deliberate or an unconscious bias could it? I
always thought that algorithms were the most efficient and fairest way
of making predictions. They certainly work very well for the future
prediction of the state of the economy...;-)
However, they appear to suffer from the usual biases based on race,
age, sex, class, culture and Uncle Tom Cobley and all. Now the threat of
appeals is causing chaos over the opening the schools later as per plan
and is causing a rethink. Instead of charging £200 an appeal, the
government has had to make them free, so taking up teachers time.
Why they just can't award the results on the predictions of the students
teachers, I don't know. After all, the universities are going to be
very short of students next year due to all those overseas students from
the likes of China and India not turning up due to the pandemic, and if
a UK student gains entry to a UK university and then fails in the first
year, then at least they will have had the opportunity to get there and
prove themselves. Algorithms don't take such things into account.
That's the trouble with scientific theory, it has never been able to
overcome the decisions made by Gods Conservative political theories, no
matter how hard it tries to be objective...;-)
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There's more uncertainty for hundreds of thousands of A Level students,
and for children waiting for their GCSE results.
The exams regulator, Ofqual withdrew its guidance on how pupils could
appeal their grades hours after making it public.
And the former Conservative Education Secretary Kenneth Baker has said
the government should stop “digging a hole” and postpone the
announcement of GCSE results.
The Government has been under fire since A Level grades allocated by
Ofqual were announced in England — following the cancellation of the
exams due to the coronavirus pandemic. Almost 40% of the grades were
lower than teachers’ assessments.
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