Originally Posted by JonLaw
Originally Posted by indigo
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At a presentation I asked the high school principal if he had thought of tracking what percentage graduated from college. He was surprised by the question but said it was a good idea.
Possibly he was surprised or taken aback due to
1) knowing this data is being tracked from preschool to college to workforce in longitudinal student data systems,
2) many parents expressing opposition to the extensive data collection and sharing.

That's just the natural tension between the enlightened and modern open information world, in which all information is available to everyone at all times, and the archaic feudal privacy system in which information asymmetry is weaponized and information is hoarded by those who want to prevent the spread of knowledge and human development.


Tools of Ahriman, all of it.

grin

Schrödinger's cat walks into a bar. And doesn't.