New Facebook App Tells College Applicants What Their Chances Are
I read this article and was thinking: Exciting or Depressing? Useful or Not? I mean they claim that they are pretty accurate (in case of UCLA for example, 85% of students the app said would get in did) but I think the app is still a long way to predicting admission overall: they would need to expand their sample size, conduct more testing and take additional variables into account, like essays, which they currently do not. In addition, how can they predict who your competition will be?
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I saw this article and thought about posting it. Truth is that while I think this has the potential to make money, I don't agree with it. High school juniors and seniors are stressed out anough and this ives them a pobbile negative outcome without any context. On the other hand, it is an intereting tool for wide range data collection.
Great points about the social/psychological impact of these types of apps. Part of a much bigger conversation about setting limits and also privacy concerns.
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