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My cumulative GPA, thus far:
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- Don't complain about lack of options. You've got to pick a few when you do multiple choice. Those are the breaks.
- Feel free to suggest poll ideas if you're feeling creative. I'd strongly suggest reading the past polls first.
- This whole thing is wildly inaccurate. Rounding errors, ballot stuffers, dynamic IPs, firewalls. If you're using these numbers to do anything important, you're insane.
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Low (Score:5, Interesting)
As far as predictive performance metrics go, GPA is largely meaningless. It only seems to bear significance when there are no other suitable means by which to judge a candidate, or when candidates are being filtered by incompetent HR personnel.
When starting my career, I had trouble getting past the latter. My solution was to omit academic experience altogether from my resume and focus instead on private software projects and contract work. That did the trick.
Nowadays, I do list my degree, but do not include a GPA figure. Nobody's bothered to ask about it and they have no problem giving me money in exchange for engineering services.
Re:Bell Curve (Score:4, Interesting)
Scales above 4.0 (Score:4, Interesting)
In my high school, AP (Advanced Placement) courses were on a 5 point scale, not a 4 point scale; A = 5, B=3.75, C=2.5, etc. So even with a couple of Bs over the years, As in 3 AP classes brought my high school GPA to 4.05 .
I just don't know how to average in those 'unsatisfactory' grades for handwriting & behavior from kindergarden and grade school.