The Exchanges

Every argument clarity score on this site is built from rows on this page. Each question and answer was assessed with names hidden, the host's own answers included, on four things from 1 to 5: directness (does it answer the question asked), coherence (do the ideas follow), precision (concrete details and clear references), compression (says a lot per word). The weighted mix (30/30/25/15) is the exchange score. A person's published score averages their exchange scores on raw tape only, at least 8 of them, shrunk toward the cohort mean. Full method →

Mike Reiser no published score: only 1 usable exchange on raw tape, and a fair score needs 8+ record → ← everyone

Every exchange below was scored with names hidden, four dimensions each from 1 to 5. An exchange's score is 0.30·directness + 0.30·coherence + 0.25·precision + 0.15·compression. The published score averages the raw tape exchange scores and shrinks small samples toward the cohort mean, so five great answers can't beat twenty good ones. Produced feed rows count only toward coarse estimates, never toward a full score.

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Answered raw tape D 5 · C 5 · P 4 · Cm 4 4.60

Q So this approach you're taking is sometimes accused maybe of getting lower quality, Uh, you know, lower quality people coming out in terms they're not as good at what they do because you're getting them out so quickly. How do you respond to that?

A Well, I, I admit that from time to time we've been accused of that, but here's how I would answer it is. If the earnings of our graduates continue to grow, isn't that a direct indication of an increasing level of quality? And I can tell you that's true because everything we do starts with the end in mind. So this relationship that we built with the employers as it matures and deepens, it informs in a reverse engineering fashion those skills we're teaching so that our graduates are literally more qualified with each iteration as time goes by. And, and, and our quality is determined by those employers. And if they're paying more for our graduates year over year, that indicates that those employees are more valuable.

AI assessment note: “If the earnings of our graduates continue to grow, isn't that a direct indication”

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