Timeline for Why is PhD GPA considered irrelevant?
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| Apr 9, 2018 at 13:49 | comment | added | barbecue | @emory The coach does not have to be superior to the player in skill; the coach is the player's superior, meaning a senior or higher authority in a hierarchy or organizational structure. Ignore it if you like, but this is a real and legitimate usage of the word superior in the English language. Do you take orders from someone higher than you in a hierarchy? Then they are your superior. Are they superior (adjective)? Maybe, maybe not, but they are YOUR superior (noun.) | |
| Apr 9, 2018 at 12:36 | comment | added | Arthur Tarasov | @emory I think a formal grade by definition has to be assigned by a superior. Otherwise it is not a formal grade. The issue here is the definition of the word "grade". It is pretty strictly embedded in GPA across all academia and multiple countries. It can't be stretched without discrediting the GPA itself. | |
| Apr 9, 2018 at 12:28 | comment | added | emory | @barbecue NBA players don't (nor shouldn't) listen to me, but they listen to their coaches, managers, and team owners whose basketball skills while superior to mine are vastly inferior to that of the players. | |
| Apr 9, 2018 at 12:26 | comment | added | emory | @barbecue I was unaware that PhD students exist outside the hierarchical organizations that incarcerate the rest of us. Do their supervisors, dissertation committees, deans, and funding agencies know about this? | |
| Apr 7, 2018 at 17:33 | comment | added | barbecue | @emory superior in a hierarchy, not necessarily superior in knowledge or performance. You can rate NBA players all you want, but they're not going to listen to you, they're going to listen to their coaches. | |
| Apr 7, 2018 at 14:02 | comment | added | emory | I really don't see why formal grades have to be given by someone who is "superior". Every single NBA player is "superior" in basketball skills to me, yet I feel qualified to evaluate their performance relative to each other. Similarly I feel confident that I could sit with a PhD candidate and come up with a reasonable assessment of the originality, utility, and value of said candidate's research while conceding the superiority of said candidate in the research domain. | |
| Apr 6, 2018 at 8:16 | history | answered | Arthur Tarasov | CC BY-SA 3.0 |