Measuring Up

SUCCESS CAN BE MEASURED in different ways. As kids, we’re taught to do our best in school, where performance is calculated in increasingly absolute terms -- at first gold stars and happy faces, then letter grades and finally grade-point averages.

SUCCESS CAN BE MEASURED in different ways. As kids, we’re taught to do our best in school, where performance is calculated in increasingly absolute terms -- at first gold stars and happy faces, then letter grades and finally grade-point averages. Along the way we also learn about relative performance.

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