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In article <DIoyt4.Eto@cunews.carleton.ca>,
Youngwon Cho <ycho@chat.carleton.ca> wrote:
>Tanya Quinn (tdquinn@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca) wrote:
>
>> An as far as Carleton providing a better "rate of return" this is simply 
>> as measured by numbers and not quality of knowledge.
>
>In other words, there is no objective way to measure the quality 
>of knowledge?
>
>So what's all this big fuss about Macleans Survey then?

Let me try to put this really simply .....

I have a 20% average in high school.
I get accepted into a certain university - average high school entering
average of 30%
In that university I get an average of 80% - Wow I've improved so much
or so I think...
I decide to switch universities - at the other university I get put back
a year and still do not understand the material!

The averages that are given in a university can not be compared with the
averages in another university just because the standards in the university
are different. It is an invalid comparison. Now if you compare the number of
students from the different universities getting graduate placements etc
then the comparison may be more valid. But the points which the Carleton
students bring up to- say the "rate of return" are totally invalid.


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