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I thought Harvard was just a terrible school for uppity people?

There are maybe five U.S. senators with Harvard degrees who can't pass a 7th grade climate science unit.

You don't see this from MIT, Chicago, Berkeley, Northwestern.

I can't really imagine a worse school. Except Yale.

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I'd wait a few years on Chicago -- my impression is that they've been undergoing some pretty profound cultural shifts regarding admissions and grading, i.e. their rigor is getting more performative and less real (and it was always at least a little performative, or at least, rooted in being just a little gratuitously mean).

EDIT: Not coincidentally, it was an admin brought in from Yale who got this ball rolling.

True, all of the top schools have a problem with either attracting or nurturing unethical clowns of blockbuster proportion.

Can't pass or are unwilling to pass?

On the one hand, passing it would get them a good grade 7 test score.

On the other hand, not passing it lets them keep their job.

This seems like an easy decision, especially for someone smart enough to finish a degree at Harvard. /S

So we are saying that Harvard and Yale are overrepresented when it comes to leaders of superlative moral depravity, perfidy, and mendacity?

No, I'm saying that our process[1] for choosing representatives selects for people that aren't suitable to lead.

[1] Many other processes share this problem, to varying degrees.

I can agree with that take. "The processes" ideally would filter the less suitable to more marginal positions of influence.

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