"... grades on _a_ curve."

[Jocelyn Limpert]

Grading on the curve existed in the '50s!


On Tue, Dec 24, 2013 at 10:14 PM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>wrote:

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> On Dec 24, 2013, at 10:04 PM, Benjamin Barrett wrote:
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> > I do not. My earliest recollection of this is early 1980s, so perhaps it
> had become indefinite by then. I also don't recall it being on a bell
> curve, just on some undefined curve.
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> Ditto, back to at least the early 1970s.
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> LH
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> > On Dec 24, 2013, at 6:56 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at ALUM.MIT.EDU> wrote:
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> >> Remember that bygone era when the expression was,
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> >> "grade on _the_ [bell] curve"?
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