[EM] Majority-Judgement using adjectives versus alphabetical scales versus numerical ranges.

[Andy Jennings]

I'm in the U.S.  Even here, where the standard educational scale is
alphabetical, I much prefer actual adjectives for the grades:

Excellent, Very Good, Good, Fair, Poor, Reject

MJ works best when the voters, as much as possible, have a shared
understanding of the actual meaning of the grades.  With grading curves and
grade inflation, I feel that the A-F scale is not good enough as a "common
language" across our culture anymore.

~ Andy


On Thu, Dec 6, 2012 at 2:54 PM, ⸘Ŭalabio‽ <Walabio at macosx.com> wrote:

>         ¡Hello!
>
>         ¿How fare you?
>
>         Yesterday, I noted that Majority-Judgements does not work if we
> have too many adjectives because we have only so many adjectives and voters
> might confuse adjectives too close in meaning..  ¿Would an alphabetical
> scale be acceptable?:
>
>         In the United States of America, we grade students using letters:
>
>         A+
>         A
>         A-
>         B+
>         B
>         B-
>         C+
>         C
>         C-
>         D+
>         D
>         D-
>         F+
>         F
>         F-
>
>         I have 2 questions grading candidates on this scale.  1 question
> is for people not in the United States of America.  The other question is
> for everyone:
>
>         People outside the United States of America:
>
>         ¿Do you Understand this Scale?
>
>         For everyone:
>
>         ¿Is this scale acceptable to you?
>
>         Followup question:
>
>         If this scale is not acceptable to you, ¿why is it not acceptable
> to you?
>
>         With 15 grades, this scale is not very different from the
> numerical ranges of 0 to 9 or negative -9 to positive +9.  This raises the
> question:
>
>         ¿Why not just use the ranges 0 to 9 or negative -9 to positive +9
> instead?
>
>         ¡Peace!
>
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