David Yang writes:
Just
want to share a post I saw on China’s social media today.
This
week is China’s college entrance exam (Gaokao), and a high-profile social media
account featured your book and the matching algorithm in a post about the
college admission system in China. See picture #1: the title of the post reads
“One algorithm that solves the challenges of college admission”, and you can
see the cover of your book below. The abstract reads: “Rarely is economics this
useful and pragmatic — a classic algorithm can potentially lead China’s college
admission system out of trouble, solving the lose-lose situation currently
faced by students and universities.”
And
when you click on the article, you see Picture #2, which is a signal that the
article has been censored and content deleted. College admission system in
China has been fiercely debated and it is become quite a sensitive topic!
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4 comments:
I searched online and read this article in Chinese. The author cited your book and discusses the benefits of DA in real life applications, then concluded by asking "why isn't Chinese college admission using this mechanism?"
My comments are:
1. The author does not know that Chinese college admission is actually using a slight variation of DA called Parallel mechanism (see Chen and Kesten), hence his accusation is wrong.
2. I am not sure that this article is deleted by the authority due to censorship. The topic is debated but hardly sensitive, and the article itself may have been pointed out wrong.
Thanks. Can you post a link at which others could read the article in Chinese?
Please see http://wangshuo.blog.caixin.com/archives/147382
zjhtqf is totally right. Some scholars have discussed DA algorithm in Chinese journal. The author of caixin is totally wrong.
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