Are academic grades important?
What was the last thing you graded or rated? You last purchase off Amazon or the last Pizza delivery? You see where I am going with this. What do these grades and ratings do? They decide which `thing` is better than the other, which `thing` is most liked by majority of the people, which `thing` is worth spending your money on based on multiple recommendations. Grades and ratings are certainly helpful when it comes to a commodity. You decide to purchase a shoe online, but it’s really a tough call, because with shoes you need comfort as the deciding factor, the touch and feel is important. However, when hundreds of people have rated the shoe to be a 4.5/5 stars in comfort, you trust their opinion and buy the shoe online. Ok how about Uber rating. Why is that necessary? Don’t forget that the Uber driver is rating you too although it may never really do much for you, but the rating you end up giving the uber driver helps him make money. The better he ge...