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New app calculates GPA based on phone use
Jonny Lim for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online
There’s now an answer to a question no one’s ever asked.
The question: Can you calculate someone’s GPA just by looking at their phone?
The answer: Apparently, yes.
Dartmouth College has been developing a smartphone app called SmartGPA that is able to calculate your GPA based on cellphone data. This app does not require the user to do anything except for some self-reports once in a while. The app will do everything else such as track your sleeping patterns, exercising patterns, studying, and your socializing. Does the NSA know about this yet?
They tested out the app on 30 Dartmouth students and monitored them for a 10-week academic term. The results showed that the app, as well as with periodic self-reports from the students, can predict GPA to the 17 hundredths of a point again their cumulative GPA.
If the predicted GPA is not to the student’s satisfaction then the app will give tips on how to improve it.
Getting nagged by an app is just what you need to get those grades up, right?
This app allows students to see how much of their life outside of studying actually affects their studying.
“The SmartGPA study goes much deeper in our analysis of academic performance and proposes time series analysis of each student’s data streams to best understand the individuals’ differences between high and low performers,” says Arthur Campbell, senior author of the paper.
Here’s the YouTube video to explain it a bit further.
Apparently “higher performers experienced an increase in stress levels up to the midterm period, followed by a gradual decrease to the end of the term.”
If there is one thing you don’t need an app to telling you, it’s the increase of stress levels during midterms.
So if you ever wanted to know how your partying, sleeping, exercising, and studying is affecting your GPA through “sensing and machine learning algorithms” so that you can either show your parents that you aren’t partying too much or that your parents were right and you need to calm it down, then SmartGPA is for you.
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