tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26666124.post422873104375627942..comments2024-03-18T03:28:36.581-04:00Comments on Shrink Rap: Drowning BunniesUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26666124.post-86965461214562332762016-01-22T09:52:11.931-05:002016-01-22T09:52:11.931-05:00I notice that you talk in absolutes, ("defini...I notice that you talk in absolutes, ("definitely not going to make it" etc) while the justification for his position talks in probabilities ("more likely to drop out").<br /><br />Within the first few weeks you often have a pretty good idea who's going to crash and burn. You talk about a handful of anecdotes of people who've gone on to do ok but the vast majority are not those few. Similarly Steve Jobs and Bill Gates are not representative. They didn't drop out due to struggling with anything. <br /><br />And many of those people who are obviously never going to graduate get strung along for years, wasting time, money and life. <br /><br />If a hundred people suffer that so that your single fluffy bunny can pull themselves together and succeed do you just choose to ignore what happened to the hundred and pretend that the 1 is the only person who matters? <br /><br />What you paint as kind I see as needlessly cruel. Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15104863118335281318noreply@blogger.com