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That’s where the “achievement index” comes into play. Developed by Valen E. Johnson, a professor of statistics at Duke University, the achievement index is a system of ranking students that takes into account how each student performs relative to the people in his course, and how the people in his course performed in their other courses. Johnson compares it to the rankings in college sports, which take into account the difficulty of the schedule in addition to the team’s record. The Harvard football team is a great team...
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