ROK Head Assistance with a Paper Grading Experiment
I received a request to see if my readers could read and grade a college paper on Japanese Literature and History and provide a A+ through F grade on it. It is an experiment to see how readers would grade this paper compared to the professor. If you are interested click this link to read the paper and then post a grade in comments section. Below is an excerpt from the introduction. Thanks for the assistance!
I graded the paper:
F-
You think I jest?
The introduction mentioned Yamazaki Sōkan’s (1465-1553) poem about the frog jumping into the water… except he didn’t write that poem.
Matsuo Bashō (1644-1694), a 17th century poet, wrote that and it does not fit into the 16th-century (1467-1603) context being discussed.
Protip:
Reserve the indulgence of academic laxity and intellectual shallowness for the later sections of the paper, when my patience has waned and my attention has dulled. In the introduction, when my faculties are keen and my critical standards uncompromising, I demand rigor, depth, and the kind of erudition that reassures me I am in the presence of a formidable intellect.
https://www.bopsecrets.org/gateway/passages/basho-frog.htm
Bonus Thought:
Why do I feel this activity was not really about grading a paper? There aren’t more than a handfull of people here who are passionate enough about 400+ year old Japanese poetry to have a valid opinion, let alone the qualifications to grade a paper.
I have included a picture of myself paying to try on samurai armor back in the day, which gained me the nickname “the first weeb”.
I couldn’t make it much furthet past:
“The role of haikai no renga in democratizing poetry”
One bad a priori can bust your entire argument.
This is a stupid concept born purely out of paying tribute to modern political sensibilities.
They are taking a term to describe a political situation and conflating it with increased accessibility that comes from economic growth and more supply/demand. Consider the reality that all successful economics are a function of top down comnand systems, at the high end a CEO is a modern monarch of his company, and at the low end the Cheff is the monarch of the kitchen. No one succeeds by runing a company as a democratic commune. Effectively they have created an oxymoron with that term.
One might as well argue petro based fertilizer ‘democratized’ food and that Rockefeller was a great ‘democratizer’ of history. A laughable position. What next, Ford ‘democratized’ driving? Economic growth has seen to greater and greater specialization which has led to a continuation of elite driven society, or the ‘natural aristocracy’ as the founding fathers put it.
I skimed the rest of the paper. It appears to be full of academic drivel… so probably an ‘A’ grade. ‘A+’ if there’s plagiarism because that’s the new standard these days.
Chickenhead grading a research paper? How? The dummy can’t even read and write functionally. He grading the paper F, shows what he really knows. Nothing.
This is the AI which graded this paper.
As for charges of plagiarism from a MAGA, this is what the same AI say:
Korea Man…
Japan’s famed haiku
misattribution unseen
your A I is flawed
with all due respect, I’d rather trust the AI, rather than someone named “Chickenhead”. A bird brain is not a trustworthy source, I’m afraid.
Actually, Yamazaki Sokan did have a famous frog haiku as well. Scholars are divided on its interpretation.
the frog barks madly
not unlike your dear mother
when she heads the train
Wherein the chinabots become their own “comfort wimmin”…
Speaking of Chinabots…
With Trump’s risk for the world looming in January, both Japan and China are moving to patch up their differences so that they can deal with the US together.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-12-25/japan-china-agree-to-visit-by-beijing-s-top-diplomat-next-year
South Korea is in turmoil so it can’t do anything right now until the economy completely collapses (maybe Trump can help in speeding up the timing). If the country doesn’t get into a civil war, and the new Korean government under the Democrats comes to power, South Korea will join the new East Asia alliance. It’s far better for China-Japan-South Korea to deal with the US together, rather than individually, since being friends with the US no longer offers protection from US economic trade tariffs.
The US is changing the globe, like it or not, and it’s only a matter of time before the rest of the world catches up with the new reality.