[storus]

Yet elite universities revel in making learning experience as stressful as possible.

[malfist]

Not just elite! But don't worry, there's a councilor thats on hand that if you hold off on your mental health crisis for a few weeks and see you once.

[joelfried]

Of course they do - they're in the credentialing business.

[xkcd-sucks]

There is some real world value to selecting for people whose learning is more resilient under pressure

[perching_aix]

Is it worth sacrificing / compromising entire careers (or in some cases lives) over? Quite the high overhead little data collection.

[observationist]

Credentials being positively correlated with resilience and having learned things would be great.

It's too bad that's not what the institutions are doing.

[0x20cowboy]

What is it?

[breezybottom]

I don't know about that. Even Harvard has a big grade inflation problem. And non-elite colleges are trying to make it as effortless as possible to get a degree.

[tancop]

grade inflation is the right thing to do as long as employers and post graduate schools keep looking at grades or gpa. if you do strict "fair" evaluation you put your students at a disadvantage compared to same level students at other schools that grade more relaxed. grades should be feedback not something to compare with others instead we should set up a standard state exam (pass/fail, unlimited cheap retakes) to decide if you get a degree. but until that happens keep on inflating