C. Thi Nguyen
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first heard Jan 2026
last heard 7 Jul
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So to get around this, we have this tool we've made up in institutional context that is institutional quantifications.
And what we do there is we identify some contact invariant kernel, some chunk that everyone understands and everyone counts in the same way.
And we hold it fixed and we all collect into that same bucket.
Right.
So this is like a GPA, right?
We all agree about approximately what an A, B, and C means.
We all agree about the numerical equivalence.
And this means that when I give my student an A or a B, that information is instantly transferable to someone in a totally different context.
And because we all agree, it can aggregate instantly, and this enables GPAs, right?
So one way to put it is that the reason...
that grades, letter grades, are so important socially is that we've engineered them to be comprehensible to everybody, and we've engineered them to be comprehensible by removing nuance and context.
So it's not an accident.
I think this is the thing.
This is, this is the point I think where Porter, like this explanation, like ripped my mind apart.
And like, I felt like I matrix style saw the, the bones of the universe I was in, which is that, you know, metrics are powerful.
And they're kind of inhumane and simplified.
And that's no accident.
They're powerful because they've been engineered to be informationally portable.
And the thing that makes them portable is this context stripping, nuance stripping, sensitivity stripping.
Yeah, I think an even clearer example for me is learning outcomes.
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