An athletic director proudly states that he has used the average GPAs of the university’s sports teams and is predicting a high

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PolarNik [594]

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An athletic director proudly states that he has used the average GPAs of the university’s sports teams and is predicting a high

graduation rate for the teams. Why is this method unsafe?

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Lubov Fominskaja [6] · Answer 1 · 2022-01-06T08:32:25+03:00

This method is unsafe because of two reasons. First, the person conducting the experiment is biased as they are affiliated with the subject of the experiment. Second, GPA does not inherently equal graduation rate. You can graduate university with a low GPA unless you fail a lot.