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(disclaimer: have no actual context and have just skimmed the various articles)

It's interesting to read the perspective of the students as well: https://www.reddit.com/r/nyu/comments/xvsgk0/the_professor_j...

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Don't know about the whole of it, but "Now that this article has been published, so many people who never went to college and could hardly do middle school algebra are complaining and moaning that they will never trust an NYU degree and that this generation is soft." seems not unfair as applied to the NY Post. Papers a bit more upscale than the NY Post employ reporters who are pretty shaky on math and I suppose science.

>Now that this article has been published, so many people who never went to college and could hardly do middle school algebra are complaining and moaning that they will never trust an NYU degree and that this generation is soft

And there is nothing wrong with that. Doctors are held to higher intellectual standards than plumbers, and paid accordingly too. The education level of the critic is entirely irrelevant to the question of whether doctors-in-training are more or less competent than before.

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