<p>Exactly. Here we go:</p>
<p>1) You know people’s rank. Unless they are randomly telling you, I find this quite odd.</p>
<p>2) You rank people in intelligence that precisely</p>
<p>3) You would make a thread detailing this, presumably with some idea that it would be remotely productive</p>
<p>4) You don’t realize how creepy this is</p>
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<p>The impression I’ve gotten from CC is that everyone at the top knows each other’s ranks, in which case, it wouldn’t be odd. See the thread asking about racial composition of the top ten for an example of this.</p>
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<p>This results from the familiarity I have with the top 15-20 members of my class, undoubtedly because all our classes are together. The impression I’ve gotten from CC is that this is not a unique phenomenon to my school.</p>
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<p>Since 1 and 2 logically lead to this, I won’t go into further detail regarding the productivity.</p>
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<p>Obviously not…again, based on 1 and 2.</p>
<p>“The impression I’ve gotten from CC is that everyone at the top knows each other’s ranks, in which case, it wouldn’t be odd. See the thread asking about racial composition of the top ten for an example of this.”</p>
<p>Clearly not “everyone,” and not everyone at the top either. The impression you’ve gotten is wrong, and is odd because I’m not just comparing you to other creepers on this site. I’m comparing you to the normal, top student-y people I know from everyone. None of them know anyone else’s grades or rank.</p>
<p>“This results from the familiarity I have with the top 15-20 members of my class, undoubtedly because all our classes are together. The impression I’ve gotten from CC is that this is not a unique phenomenon to my school.”</p>
<p>But how would you feel qualified to say that one person is for sure smarter than another, unless you are close friends? If you are, I’m surprised that you would give thought to that at all. Again, CC impressions are worthless. What have we learned? Some, many, whatever, CC members are weirdos. Does that make the behavior less strange? No.</p>
<p>Disclaimer: I’m not saying that you’re auto-bizarre if you know other people’s grades. Still, unless the school releases the info, knowing all the top 5 or top 10 strikes me as…odd.</p>
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<p>That’s rather interesting, because all the top students at my school do know everyone else’s grades and rank. I’ve seen multiple examples on CC of this being the case, so naturally I assumed my observations applied everywhere. Since you have noticed this to the contrary, I guess we can establish my impression is true, to a limited extent.</p>
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<p>The part about “all our classes are together”. When you see the same kids every day and listen to their contributions to class, both extemporaneous and prepared, peer edit their writing, and assist them in learning concepts/finishing homework, you get a clear sense of how smart they actually are. Again, it may be the result of our school’s small size and relatively restricted scheduling, but I didn’t think increasing a school size to 1200 or 1500 (or higher), had that much of an effect. Perhaps I was wrong, but from multiple sources, that wasn’t the sense I got.</p>
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<p>The school did release the info, to some extent - after a senior class meeting, the principal pulled over the top 10 and talked to us about who would eventually become valedictorians (five, I think, our system is unique). He had a class ranking on the table as he was talking, and wasn’t reluctant to show us ours. The other names weren’t covered up, though, so it was impossible not to see where everyone else was. Regardless, kids had been talking about it before; I would have found out either way.</p>
<p>“That’s rather interesting, because all the top students at my school do know everyone else’s grades and rank. I’ve seen multiple examples on CC of this being the case, so naturally I assumed my observations applied everywhere. Since you have noticed this to the contrary, I guess we can establish my impression is true, to a limited extent.”</p>
<p>Yeah, but CC isn’t normal. Not all top students are on CC, and the ones who are, as you have noted, have a tendency to know. What does this establish? That CC students are more likely to know other people’s grades. Nothing else. </p>
<p>“When you see the same kids every day and listen to their contributions to class, both extemporaneous and prepared, peer edit their writing, and assist them in learning concepts/finishing homework, you get a clear sense of how smart they actually are.”</p>
<p>Hmmm…Different experiences. No peer editing among top students at my school, no homework help. No SAT sharing. No grade sharing. The work is all independent, even at top publics in the area. Even in your situation, I would hesitate to make judgments. Some of the smartest kids in my school are ‘silent’ – you would never know until you get to know them pretty well. That’s why I’m wary of such a definitive ranking system; I don’t understand how you could possibly happen to know all the ‘smartest’ kids. Is it inconceivable that someone you wouldn’t think is the top 5 in intelligence happens to be so? I don’t know; I’m asking.</p>
<p>“He had a class ranking on the table as he was talking, and wasn’t reluctant to show us ours. The other names weren’t covered up, though, so it was impossible not to see where everyone else was. Regardless, kids had been talking about it before; I would have found out either way.”</p>
<p>Where do you live? Honestly, this is kind of scaring me. It feels like our entire areas are different. My city is basically anti-whatever yours is.</p>
<p>Okay, I won’t take up more space. I think my thesis still stands: I don’t know why you would quantify people you know like this; it seems to have no purpose or goal. Not only that, I don’t see how it is even interesting.</p>
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<p>Is anything on this forum productive? I know the top 5 in my class because I asked my counselor, and she told me.</p>
<p>“Is anything on this forum productive? I know the top 5 in my class because I asked my counselor, and she told me.”</p>
<p>Yes, actually. And about the second sentence: That’s the part I find odd. </p>
<p>But I’m sorry for derailing this, I promise not to post anymore (take this as an opportunity to slam me, if you so desire…)</p>
<p>Well, amciw since you know me, you’d kinda notice that I was being slightly facetious by jumping onto the “bandwagon”. Baelor however…well he gets into an argument with everyone on every thread, so I don’t know (nothing implied, nothing against anyone).</p>
<p>It’s just a simple thread, and I wouldn’t say it’s any worse than over 3/4 of the other threads out there.</p>