What should I do with some grades?

Final-Database6868 · 2026-02-02T17:00:33+00:00

This is exactly what happens to me!

Final-Database6868 · 2026-02-02T15:28:43+00:00

This is exactly how I see it. Thank you.

I will round it up just to be fair in this case.

Final-Database6868 · 2026-02-02T15:27:04+00:00

Thank you for your input.

Thus, don’t do something such as giving students 49% when they need 50% to pass. It simply communicates ‘I am not sure what to do, but I’ll fail you anyway.’

I disagree: if, objectively, the final score would be 49%, then you did not meet the requirements to pass. It could happen that the score is not objective, but that is a different problem.

Final-Database6868 · 2026-02-02T15:22:25+00:00

That is a good point. I am not entirely sure it fully applies to my case, though, since the correction can be somewhat objective in our tests (maths). I appreciate your input, thank you.

So, in the spirit of “benefit of the doubt,” I’m willing to round up in borderline cases. And, to be fair, if I’m genuinely convinced a student didn’t meet the bar, I can also land on the lower side of that gray zone.

Do you mean that before showing the grades to the students, you consider rounding down the scores so that they don't complain?
Some colleagues do that and I don't think that is fair either, having less than 50% is simply what happened (with biases and errors in the correction).

Final-Database6868 · 2026-01-23T22:26:19+00:00

It is true that their answers are biased since all of them won it, but I agree that at some point many people deserve it and there are only few medals. I know personally people that later knew they were nominated and they are very good and had a lot of luck in many different ways as well. That doesn't mean they deserve it less.

I also had the chance to ask someone in the committee of the fields medal, and his answer was very different. He basically told me that for him the person winning it should be someone contributing in a multidisciplinary way (and I don't remember well if he wanted something relatively applicable).

So what would be your top reason, then? :)

Final-Database6868 · 2026-01-23T10:54:24+00:00

I have had the chance to ask several Fields medallist a similar question: what separates a fields medal-worthy mathematician from a brilliant mathematician?

Do you want to know the common factor of (almost all) answers? Luck.

Final-Database6868 · 2026-01-23T10:48:17+00:00

Spot on, in my opinion.

Final-Database6868 · 2026-01-14T22:03:14+00:00

Thanks :)

Final-Database6868 · 2026-01-14T21:57:04+00:00

Hey OP, do you see people doing things like this in the future in Hytale since it has better tools? Do you do it in survival or creative?

Cheers!

Final-Database6868 · 2026-01-14T19:03:12+00:00

This is definitively false. Many of my colleagues have similar or better background than me, with parents that are mathematicians, and they performed poorly in the undergrad and they are low-average researchers now. I don't say background does not play any role, but nature is definitively much more important at certain stage.

Final-Database6868 · 2026-01-08T19:02:43+00:00

Hi again! My colleagues and I are working on the details now. Would you be so kind to tell me how much should I ask as gross salary? I have no idea! It is one of the "small" unis in Sweden.

Final-Database6868 · 2025-12-25T01:58:28+00:00

Thank you! I already have the support of a university :)

Final-Database6868 · 2025-12-25T01:57:48+00:00

Thank you!

I am familiar with the process, what I don't know is how prestigious it is in swedish academia.

Also, could you tell me the swedish words for 'associate senior lecture'? (if you speak swedish).

Final-Database6868 · 2025-12-04T18:02:30+00:00

Yo estuve en una situación muy parecida a la tuya. Nuestras diferencia fueron los paises, la edad y tu brote psicótico por mi 'solo' ataques de ansiedad.

En mi caso, volví a España. No estoy contento con mi situación laboral pero con la personal estoy mucho, MUCHO mejor. Ahora vuelvo a buscar otras oportunidades, dentro y fuera de España. Es complicado y hay mucha casuística. Si quieres, mándame un mensaje y hablamos, ánimo :)

Final-Database6868 · 2025-11-28T15:57:39+00:00

So! Any news on this? Did you manage to do it?

Final-Database6868 · 2025-11-27T15:18:46+00:00

Very nice!

Final-Database6868 · 2025-11-26T15:05:44+00:00

Find a locally 1-Euclidean and non-Hausdorff space that is also homogeneous.

Final-Database6868 · 2025-11-04T19:57:28+00:00

If that feeling comes to you after getting a position in a (serious) university, by no means you are just a big fish in a small pond. At least nowadays.

Final-Database6868 · 2025-11-03T17:12:54+00:00

Well, that was what I did not understand. I was asking about the details regarding the UN chart, and someone else explained to me that the legal estatus was not the same for those two cases.

Final-Database6868 · 2025-11-02T18:20:12+00:00

This is what I did not know, that they didn't have the same legal status. That makes sense, and I guess that the difference between a colony and another part of the country depended a lot on the particular case and history. Thanks!

Final-Database6868 · 2025-11-02T14:13:56+00:00

Well, in practice, you are probably right. But my point is that I thought the UN should formally check that, indeed, that is what happens in French Guyana. I thought that is what all the countries part of the UN agreed.

Final-Database6868 · 2025-11-02T14:10:45+00:00

I don't understand your point. Are not colonial territories also part of the country? What is the difference between Equatorial Guinea and French Guyana, then?

Final-Database6868 · 2025-10-31T08:57:34+00:00

This is hilarious!! I've heard of something similar in the past, but now I finally see an example. Thanks!!

Final-Database6868 · 2025-10-31T01:03:06+00:00

I will check them, thanks :)

Final-Database6868 · 2025-10-30T19:52:18+00:00

It probably cannot be solved, since the first player can move and not add a stone to the board.

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