People can submit their world-changing ideas and possibly have them implemented by a powerful organization? Potentially make a hugely influential and technically knowledgeable person aware of some of the issues people here are interested/concerned with?
By Sturgeon's law that's hardly surprising and not a reason to get dispirited. What I'm curious about is how are they planning to filter through all that crap.
What I'm curious about is how are they planning to filter through all that crap.
That's a large part of what I meant.
They can probably easily filter out responses shorter than a paragraph, and there may be some way to filter for grammatical correctness (which I suspect correlates at least loosely with having a well formed idea).
Heh. Well, asking them "Of the choices the world faces, which ones seem most important to HS students?" would probably have sounded condescending.
Heh. Well, asking them "Of the choices the world faces, which ones seem most important to HS students?" would probably have sounded condescending.
Not to mention eliminating most of whatever potential benefit there was to asking the group. The extra layer of indirection ensures that the particularly insightful will be having insights into the thinking of their less astute peers rather than the topic itself.
http://www.impatientoptimists.org/Posts/2012/01/Do-You-Have-a-WorldChanging-Idea?WT.mc_id=1_11_2012_studentannualletter_fb&WT.tsrc=Facebook