I don't know about that. Even Harvard has a big grade inflation problem. And non-elite colleges are trying to make it as effortless as possible to get a degree.
I wonder if it helps explain in part why the Publish or Perish culture is wrecking science and stalling scientific progress. The stressful environment it tends to create it's not conductive to learning and thinking in depth.
This also kinda makes me think back to how most of the influential thinkers we know didn’t make their impact in the structures we know today.
Makes me wonder if most of the prestige and “remnants” of those eras are actually just competitive pressure cookers that may not provide the environment anymore for the achievements they once enabled.
People in the Education field have known that stress hampers learning for a long time ... but it's still nice to see empirical results.
Yet elite universities revel in making learning experience as stressful as possible.
Not just elite! But don't worry, there's a councilor thats on hand that if you hold off on your mental health crisis for a few weeks and see you once.
I don't know about that. Even Harvard has a big grade inflation problem. And non-elite colleges are trying to make it as effortless as possible to get a degree.
Of course they do - they're in the credentialing business.
There is some real world value to selecting for people whose learning is more resilient under pressure
Credentials being positively correlated with resilience and having learned things would be great.
It's too bad that's not what the institutions are doing.
I wonder if it helps explain in part why the Publish or Perish culture is wrecking science and stalling scientific progress. The stressful environment it tends to create it's not conductive to learning and thinking in depth.
I think that's overcomplicating the issue. Ultimately, good science takes time, and the academic culture doesn't allow for that.
This also kinda makes me think back to how most of the influential thinkers we know didn’t make their impact in the structures we know today. Makes me wonder if most of the prestige and “remnants” of those eras are actually just competitive pressure cookers that may not provide the environment anymore for the achievements they once enabled.
Wonder if this relates to prolonged period(s) of high stress being often related to later development of dementia.
cleaned up url: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.aea5496