[deltaonefour]

>Clutch those pearls harder. Your program wasn't more difficult because it was more selective.

I never claimed such. I only know the hardness relative to another school I went too. That's as far as the anecdotal evidence goes for MY individual school. Still, we're not even talking about our respective schools anymore, I don't even care for that. I'm talking about a generality.

The numbers illustrate a generality that is axiomatically true. I'm not going to restate it, but I think you know already that it's true.

[notch656a]

>I never claimed such.

But you did. You specifically said that selectivity influences your program to be harder than non-selective programs.

[deltaonefour]

No I didn't. I mentioned my anecdotal experiences as supporting evidence but ultimately the thesis is that selectivity is causal to difficulty.

I never mentioned that it was specific to my school. Thus with no specific mention the implied meaning is that it's applied to a generality.

[notch656a]

OK so selectivity is causal to difficulty, everywhere but at the school you attended? Are you sure you didn't study law, because this kind of insane logic is something I've only read in legal briefs.

[deltaonefour]

No I didn't say that.

I made no statement about my school or your school specifically in reference to how hard they are in general. We both did however use our schools as anecdotal supporting evidence for each of our respective opinions though.

But anecdotal evidence is worthless. That's why I moved to numbers. This is what the numbers say:

Selectivity is causal to difficulty in general.

Your school could be an exception and my school may be an exception as well. But given my statement above, by probability, it is highly unlikely.

In short, it's more probable that my school is harder than your school and this probability is only escapable if someone who attended both can give us a more accurate first hand comparison.

[notch656a]

OK so selectivity is possibly causal to difficulty and possibly not? So 99.9% of non-selective schools could be as difficult as peer selective schools while the rare exception isn't? You may be on to something.... At least you finally admit you don't get to feel special about going through something more 'difficult' on account of whatever idea your school had of selectivity.

[deltaonefour]

>OK so selectivity is possibly causal to difficulty and possibly not? So 99.9% of non-selective schools could be as difficult as peer selective schools while the rare exception isn't?

Where the hell are you getting that 99.9% number? I would think someone who went to a good school wouldn't pull random numbers out of thin air.

Selectivity is causal to difficulty. Period. But the causal connection like all things in reality is a connection built upon probability. Think of the luck stat in RPGs. On average the more selective the school the harder. If there's any school that breaks the model, that school is an exception and a minority. Your school might be an exception, but by probability it is most likely not and it is more likely you just think your school is harder.

>At least you finally admit you don't get to feel special about going through something more 'difficult' on account of whatever idea your school had of selectivity.

I never said my school was special or commented about how I feel. If you look at the initial posts, I was telling you that going to a non-selective school ISN'T anything special, because you were the one talking about it.