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Francis M. Pipkin, associate dean of the Faculty for the Colleges and chairman of the committee, says the committee found that because of the instructors' grading philosophies, Nat Sci 36 doesn't fit the Gen Ed requirement that courses be taken for a letter grade.
A good deal of the concern about "grade inflation" derives from simple ignorance of statistics. All college teachers have had to learn about the bell-shaped curve, that symmetrical pattern formed by the grades of a large, representative population, and in the minds of many that frequency distribution, intended to...
The Committee on General Education yesterday decided to offer Nat Sci 36, "Biological Determinism," again next year, but decided by a close margin that because of its instructors' grading policies, the course will not count toward Gen Ed requirements.
Pipkin said committee members will talk to the instructors of those courses. But in those cases, he said, "It's not a question of grading philosophies.
In your editorial of March 23 on Nat. Sci. 36, you said that the grading system of Professors Gould and Lewontin was "certainly fairer to the student" than my reproach to the tutors in Government 98 last Fall for having given out 51% A's and A-'s in 1974...