Provocative question to all psychologists teaching statistics: Shouldn't you just stop & let mathematically trained statisticians take over? Empirical research shows that psych's teaching statistics don't know statistics well enough. So how can still teaching it be justified?
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I do think that's an issue. However, it is an insanely difficult problem to track qualifications and schooling in say 50-100 different countries (each with variation within their systems) and personalise an offer. (I once recall having to make an offer based on Peruvian quals)
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I don't buy this too much as an argument in my case... because I went through it and the system is very old. Cypriots have been studying in the UK since before Cyprus was a country.
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Also I didn't get a personalised offer at all. They just asked for 2 A-levels and an apolyterion. Same as everybody else from Cyprus.
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This is half-outsourced in Cyprus to the British Council and High commission and the student themselves. We get our apolyterions translated and do so much legwork. And it counts just as one A-level when it's like 4.
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Part of the problem is the inability to make a personalised offer when you do have good information. Another part is the difficulty of coping with the variety of systems means that we end up with simplistic rules.
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My daughter was offered 7.0/10 (overall mark in the European Baccalaureat, which is not the same as the International Baccalaureate) from Manchester and 8.0/10 from Birmingham, for pretty much the same course. Son was offered between 12 and 15 on French baccaluréat for 4 UK unis.
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That reminds me... I said no to an interview with my first choice because I wanted them to just take me. LMAO
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They did.
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In principle the justification of the early specialisation that is implied by doing (typically) just 3 A-levels is that you arrive at uni with a good level of what you need for a related degree. This works if you do maths/phys/chem and read nat sci, but not in many other cases.
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Scotland and (I think) NI are different, which is why UG science degrees in Scotland are often 4-year and English students with top A-levels are sometimes able to skip year 1 (I was told that was the case in the 1980s, anyway).
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We specialise in Cyprus at the same age.
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Classic UK bullshit.
If the British students cannot do it no one can.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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