The Ionian origins of Greek Philosophy
A visual presentation of the geographical origins of Greek Philosophy
Spanish version coming soon!
Un blog sobre Humanidades Digitales por Daniel Riaño
The study’s methodology used one variable for comparing human readers and a different variable for comparing machine scores, this difference artificially privileging the machines in half the datasets. Moreover, conclusions were drawn without the performance of statistical tests and inferences were based solely on impressionistic and sometimes inaccurate comparisons. In addition, there was no standard testing of the model as a whole for significance, which given the large number of comparisons, allowed machine variables to surpass human readers merely through random chance. Finally, half of the datasets used were not essays but short one paragraph responses involving literary analysis or reading comprehension that were not evaluated on any construct involving writing. [p. 2]
Computers cannot “read.” They cannot measure the essentials of effective written communication: accuracy, reasoning, adequacy of evidence, good sense, ethical stance, convincing argument, meaningful organization, clarity, and veracity, among others. Independent and industry studies show that by its nature computerized essay rating is:
- trivial, rating essays only on surface features such as word size, topic vocabulary, and essay length
- reductive, handling extended prose written only at a grade-school level
inaccurate, missing much error in student writing and finding much error where it does not exist
- undiagnostic, correlating hardly at all with subsequent writing performance
- unfair, discriminating against minority groups and second-language writers
- secretive, with testing companies blocking independent research into their products
The Ionian origins of Greek Philosophy A visual presentation of the geographical origins of Greek Philosophy Spanish version c...