i have an incredibly smart and capable doctor friend whom i have known very closely for years and got repeatedly trashed by this algorithm https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gale%E2%80%93Shapley_algorithm she always has very good grades too she's not like me
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this is how they choose medical school students. i'm not actually sure why they need an "algorithm"? grad students seem to do just fine? so let's interrogate that
@hipsterelectron@circumstances.run im gonna be real here, i kinda wish we had this here in russia lol. students (especially boys) have to play admission poker with their lives as the stake each and every year
there's no fucking way they're saying it's to protect the applicants https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Resident_Matching_Program
However, the competition for residents simply took on another form. Programs began to issue offers with a time limit for reply. The time limit rapidly decreased from 10 days in 1945 to less than 12 hours in 1950. Students were being issued "exploding" offers that required them to make a decision about training before hanging up the telephone.[5]
you will NEVER guess who citation [5] is
it is of course ya boy alvin roth, the guy who won the fake nobel prize apparently for mentioning that medical schools are using an algorithm?
but this source is actually not bad
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/195998
Hospitals thus had little information about students' performance
given that hospitals are the ones constituting the board of this nonprofit, this is now beginning to come together
Hospitals often had to scramble for available students, since if an offer was rejected, it was often too late for them to reach their next preferred candidate. A centralized clearinghouse was thus developed as a way of alleviating this chaos
so it's....................corporate self-regulation?
