{"id":4315,"date":"2012-04-09T12:28:22","date_gmt":"2012-04-09T19:28:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/?p=4315"},"modified":"2012-04-09T12:28:45","modified_gmt":"2012-04-09T19:28:45","slug":"if-schools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/2012\/04\/if-schools\/","title":{"rendered":"If schools&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>If schools (colleges) want to resemble real life, they would only care about the subject in which the student has the highest grade and ignore the others, a total drag. In a convex world, the average is of *zero* significance -like an option &#8211; since only the upper bound counts. So push the upper bound further.<\/p>\n<p>Same with authors- a high convexity environment. When I probe the readers (as I just did), I probe the upper bound, the most enthusiastic need to be made more enthusiastic; the others don&#8217;t exist.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/permalink.php?story_fbid=10150687070553375&amp;id=13012333374\">If schools&#8230;<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If schools (colleges) want to resemble real life, they would only care about the subject in which the student has the highest grade and ignore the others, a total drag. In a convex world, the average is of *zero* significance -like an option &#8211; since only the upper bound counts. So push the upper bound [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[145],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-facebook"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4315"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4315\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4317,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4315\/revisions\/4317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}