Well it’s probably both.

Insights from the data probably were not being actioned, but I would strongly suspect that the data they are collecting simply doesn’t have a lot of predictive capacity.

However, I don’t work with that specific data. I work with related data.

The Western world is far too concerned with test scores when they are just complete and utter bs.

I would say a test score is accurate plus or minus 40 % in terms of a student’s understanding of a subject. They’re just arbitrary.

I work with school data, I’ve worked with University, high school and primary school data. it is indeed all bullshit I’m large part because test scores are just noise and behaviours metrics are subjective and non standard.

I’ve never been able to develop a model with any predictive capacity whatsoever at all. Moreover, visualisations only ever show correlation and often do more harm than good as staff assume their actions are causing improvement when typically advantaged students simply take advantage of more activities etc.

The post above is certainly more insightful than Elon musk’s opinion and this is coming from somebody who works with this type of data.

Again, I wouldn’t suggest pulling it all apart. I would look deeply into the problem but this is really not the worst thing they’ve done.

I think this combined with the solution provided in this comment Will be the most robust approach and solve all your problems.

That’s what I would do

To be clear, historic English common law principles may not be as persuasive or binding to US judicial findings. However, the US absolutely is a Common Law jurisdiction, see eg ^[1]

Common laws is dynamic, subject to interpretation and serves often to fill gaps in legislation.

Common Law is simply a principle that similar judicial findings are binding for future cases. Whilst US, UK, South Africa, Canada etc. Are all common law countries, the application and interpretation of common law is by no means consistend and the US has diverged the furthest from the English tradition.

So whilst a traditional common law principle may be alive in law, it may also have been modified by a combination of contemporary judicial findings and legislative intervention.

Absolutely that’s what the internet was made for!

But family photos keep a bit more secure, Particularly if it’s syncing directly from your phone, I take a lot of explicit photos of my wife, but also code that I’m writing on my computer, or the kids playing, etc.