However, the same issue is in common: In theory, there are standards applied to students, and it is an important priority to distinguish between students who meet the standards and students who don't. In practice, the administration does not necessarily care about applying the standards rigorously.
I think the following two articles are a good introduction to grade inflation as a topic:
\"Can Untenured Faculty Members Stop Grade Inflation?\" - Chronicle of Higher Education, http://chronicle.com/article/Can-Untenured-Faculty-Members/4...
\"In the Basement of the Ivory Tower\" - The Atlantic Monthly, http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2008/06/in-the-b...
It can also be useful to read up on business schools, because a business major is not an \"academic\" subject; more than any other major, the students are looking explicitly for a credential that boosts their income, and don't care about the subject material. The book \"Ahead of the Curve\" (http://www.amazon.com/Ahead-Curve-Harvard-Business-School/dp...) is a well-written appraisal of the Harvard B-School and includes chapters specifically on both grade inflation and cheating.
Going through these publications and/or following the notes and recommended reading therein can lead to more involved reading on the topic. Articles in the Atlantic Monthly are always a good starting point.
The fundamental issue: If an institution of learning punishes students for cheating, or failing classes, or behaving badly, then somebody, somewhere must have both the authority to do so and the goal of exercising said authority. But often, nobody wants to be that person, or the authority is conflicted, or the goal is given less priority than the goal of making money/quota."},"story_title":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"Cheating and the Honor System"},"story_url":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"http://www.ginandtacos.com/2011/04/14/honor-system/"}},"_tags":["comment","author_ejames","story_2450700"],"author":"ejames","comment_text":"There's basically three categories where this problem shows up: grade inflation, cheating, and discipline. Grade inflation is most relevant to colleges, discipline only matters for levels of schooling with mandatory attendance, and cheating cuts across all levels.
However, the same issue is in common: In theory, there are standards applied to students, and it is an important priority to distinguish between students who meet the standards and students who don't. In practice, the administration does not necessarily care about applying the standards rigorously.
I think the following two articles are a good introduction to grade inflation as a topic:
\"Can Untenured Faculty Members Stop Grade Inflation?\" - Chronicle of Higher Education, http://chronicle.com/article/Can-Untenured-Faculty-Members/4...
\"In the Basement of the Ivory Tower\" - The Atlantic Monthly, http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2008/06/in-the-b...
It can also be useful to read up on business schools, because a business major is not an \"academic\" subject; more than any other major, the students are looking explicitly for a credential that boosts their income, and don't care about the subject material. The book \"Ahead of the Curve\" (http://www.amazon.com/Ahead-Curve-Harvard-Business-School/dp...) is a well-written appraisal of the Harvard B-School and includes chapters specifically on both grade inflation and cheating.
Going through these publications and/or following the notes and recommended reading therein can lead to more involved reading on the topic. Articles in the Atlantic Monthly are always a good starting point.
The fundamental issue: If an institution of learning punishes students for cheating, or failing classes, or behaving badly, then somebody, somewhere must have both the authority to do so and the goal of exercising said authority. But often, nobody wants to be that person, or the authority is conflicted, or the goal is given less priority than the goal of making money/quota.","created_at":"2011-04-16T21:15:07Z","created_at_i":1302988507,"objectID":"2454855","parent_id":2451551,"story_id":2450700,"story_title":"Cheating and the Honor System","story_url":"http://www.ginandtacos.com/2011/04/14/honor-system/","updated_at":"2024-09-19T17:41:25Z"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"efficax"},"comment_text":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["slop","grader"],"value":"We can only stop grade inflation if we do something that the denizens of reason dot com would not like: make public college free. The logic in the rise of grade inflation is very simple: students (or their parents) pay a fortune for a degree and they want something for it, no matter their performance. Only the most flagrant burnouts get failed out of college today because if we restored grading to a normal distribution people would stop sending their kids to college at the same rate, and colleges would lose tuition revenue."},"story_title":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"Make School Hard Again"},"story_url":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"https://reason.com/2019/05/26/make-school-hard-again/"}},"_tags":["comment","author_efficax","story_20029781"],"author":"efficax","comment_text":"We can only stop grade inflation if we do something that the denizens of reason dot com would not like: make public college free. The logic in the rise of grade inflation is very simple: students (or their parents) pay a fortune for a degree and they want something for it, no matter their performance. Only the most flagrant burnouts get failed out of college today because if we restored grading to a normal distribution people would stop sending their kids to college at the same rate, and colleges would lose tuition revenue.","created_at":"2019-05-28T14:10:20Z","created_at_i":1559052620,"objectID":"20030147","parent_id":20029781,"story_id":20029781,"story_title":"Make School Hard Again","story_url":"https://reason.com/2019/05/26/make-school-hard-again/","updated_at":"2024-09-20T04:15:38Z"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"Theodores"},"comment_text":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["slop","grader"],"value":"Nothing is redundant on a bike, if anything it is the other way around, e.g. the brakes are the wheels, the frame is the suspension, the gear mechanisms are also there to keep the chain on, the passenger is the power source. Nothing can be taken away.
Bikes also pioneer high tech lightweight materials, only recently have 'bicycle grade' aluminium and carbon fibre been used on those boxy car things.
It is a whole different world of 'body on frame' engineering. I sometimes wonder what a train would look like if it was designed from the ground up by a bicycle designer with a Lotus engineer - 'add lightness'.
Some modern 'Tesla truck' tech could be thrown in too.
Imagine having half the amount of wheels, all of them actively powered and actively steered so no screeching on corners. The seats could be 'bus stop grade' and the monocoque being some extruded tube with the hand rails and luggage racks being structural elements, like a rally car roll cage.
The idea of Brunel's wide gauge was to have the wheels at the side of the train rather than have the train sit above the tracks. Imagine if you had independent suspension and stepped a metre down into the train for some super low centre of gravity. Or if that extra space below the train was a massive parcel area so goods were shifted on/off trains with some standard pallets that just slotted in, aircraft style. Think how much traffic could be shifted off the roads particularly if you ran the trains in mixed freight mode through the night.
Rollercoaster style tracks, particularly in tube lines could be used to slow down trains at stations and speed them up afterwards.
As for the doors, these could be integrated into the compartment ends, so rather than there being the normal interconnect between compartments the doors would slide back/fore to keep the train enclosed on corners without the usual rubbery bendy bit needed.
Add airbags and seatbelts, windows that open, a bit of wifi and you could have comfort and actual passenger safety."},"story_title":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"The Dangers of Train Yards, Through the Eyes of Railroad Employees"},"story_url":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/train-yard-photos-1960s"}},"_tags":["comment","author_Theodores","story_17450896"],"author":"Theodores","comment_text":"Nothing is redundant on a bike, if anything it is the other way around, e.g. the brakes are the wheels, the frame is the suspension, the gear mechanisms are also there to keep the chain on, the passenger is the power source. Nothing can be taken away.
Bikes also pioneer high tech lightweight materials, only recently have 'bicycle grade' aluminium and carbon fibre been used on those boxy car things.
It is a whole different world of 'body on frame' engineering. I sometimes wonder what a train would look like if it was designed from the ground up by a bicycle designer with a Lotus engineer - 'add lightness'.
Some modern 'Tesla truck' tech could be thrown in too.
Imagine having half the amount of wheels, all of them actively powered and actively steered so no screeching on corners. The seats could be 'bus stop grade' and the monocoque being some extruded tube with the hand rails and luggage racks being structural elements, like a rally car roll cage.
The idea of Brunel's wide gauge was to have the wheels at the side of the train rather than have the train sit above the tracks. Imagine if you had independent suspension and stepped a metre down into the train for some super low centre of gravity. Or if that extra space below the train was a massive parcel area so goods were shifted on/off trains with some standard pallets that just slotted in, aircraft style. Think how much traffic could be shifted off the roads particularly if you ran the trains in mixed freight mode through the night.
Rollercoaster style tracks, particularly in tube lines could be used to slow down trains at stations and speed them up afterwards.
As for the doors, these could be integrated into the compartment ends, so rather than there being the normal interconnect between compartments the doors would slide back/fore to keep the train enclosed on corners without the usual rubbery bendy bit needed.
Add airbags and seatbelts, windows that open, a bit of wifi and you could have comfort and actual passenger safety.","created_at":"2018-07-04T04:49:13Z","created_at_i":1530679753,"objectID":"17455339","parent_id":17452131,"story_id":17450896,"story_title":"The Dangers of Train Yards, Through the Eyes of Railroad Employees","story_url":"https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/train-yard-photos-1960s","updated_at":"2024-09-20T02:43:21Z"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"Fade_Dance"},"comment_text":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["slop","grader"],"value":"What a horrible rule that was. Conceptually it's fine, or even good, but in practice it leads to terrible things.
...and I do mean terrible things and blown up accounts. In reality, you have smaller retail traders holding on to underwater positions instead of closing them out, because they won't want to use one of the 5 weekly daytrade tokens allocated to them. Some of them ship money to unregulated offshore brokers. Some go to extremely leveraged 0DTE markets and weekly options and move to suboptimal strategies to partially work around PDT.
There are many situations when a prudent smaller trader may want to burn daytrades. Maybe instead of using 0DTE options for gambling, they can hedge their exposure for a Fed speaker and close the position after an hour, etc.
Obviously there are dangers with churning small accounts, but that doesn't stop traders who want to trade with higher frequency, and as soon as a new trader types "how do I get around PDT" into Google, they're already off to a very bad start in their journey."},"story_title":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"Day trading is about to get easier for smaller retail investors"},"story_url":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"https://www.cnbc.com/2025/09/24/day-trading-is-about-to-get-easier-for-smaller-retail-investors.html"}},"_tags":["comment","author_Fade_Dance","story_45363423"],"author":"Fade_Dance","children":[45364036],"comment_text":"What a horrible rule that was. Conceptually it's fine, or even good, but in practice it leads to terrible things.
...and I do mean terrible things and blown up accounts. In reality, you have smaller retail traders holding on to underwater positions instead of closing them out, because they won't want to use one of the 5 weekly daytrade tokens allocated to them. Some of them ship money to unregulated offshore brokers. Some go to extremely leveraged 0DTE markets and weekly options and move to suboptimal strategies to partially work around PDT.
There are many situations when a prudent smaller trader may want to burn daytrades. Maybe instead of using 0DTE options for gambling, they can hedge their exposure for a Fed speaker and close the position after an hour, etc.
Obviously there are dangers with churning small accounts, but that doesn't stop traders who want to trade with higher frequency, and as soon as a new trader types "how do I get around PDT" into Google, they're already off to a very bad start in their journey.","created_at":"2025-09-24T17:46:40Z","created_at_i":1758736000,"objectID":"45363662","parent_id":45363423,"story_id":45363423,"story_title":"Day trading is about to get easier for smaller retail investors","story_url":"https://www.cnbc.com/2025/09/24/day-trading-is-about-to-get-easier-for-smaller-retail-investors.html","updated_at":"2026-03-05T22:43:33Z"}],"hitsPerPage":5,"nbHits":7,"nbPages":2,"page":0,"params":"query=slop-grader&hitsPerPage=5&advancedSyntax=true&analyticsTags=backend","processingTimeMS":36,"processingTimingsMS":{"_request":{"roundTrip":18},"afterFetch":{"merge":{"mergeLoop":{"prepareNextHit":2,"total":2},"total":3},"total":3},"fetch":{"query":12,"scanning":18,"total":31},"total":36},"query":"slop-grader","serverTimeMS":37}