Posted by grantduck on 2/1/2011 4:51:00 AM (view original):
Posted by a_in_the_b on 1/31/2011 8:50:00 PM (view original):
Even if you increase the chance of something happening, it can still end up the same. . .
I didn't increase the chance of the minutes going up, I in FACT raised the minutes.
If raising the minutes in SH merely increases the odds that the grades may go up(which I have not seen anyone confirm), then that system would be, as I said in the thread title, ridiculous.
SH minutes should correlate to GPA.
I'm not sure you're using "correlate" correctly. If SH minutes increase the likelihood that grades go up, there would (I think) be a correlation between SH and GPA over a sufficient sample size.
You seem to want instead there to be a direct relationship between the two, so that if a kid spends 5 minutes in SH, his grades go up by 1 letter; 10 minutes in SH, his grades go up by 2 letters; 15 minutes, 3 letters (or whatever ratio you think is appropriate).
Frankly, that sounds pretty silly from both a game-play perspective and from a "reality" perspective.