After reading the article "The Dangerous Myth of Grade Inflation" I have conclude that Kohn's argument makes sense and I agree with what he is saying. Kohn states facts that back up his argument that grades have been decreasing throughout the recent years. Having facts and sources to help back up your argument is a really positive tool to help back up your argument. If Kohn took the approach to just start talking about grade inflation blindly and without any facts or supporting evidence, it would be harder for someone like myself to reason with him and see where he is coming from. I would most likely think he was full of it. Kohn also does a great job at using other people's arguments that are against his own to prove that they don't really make much sense and that they don't have any supporting evidence to back up what they are claiming. The following quote "First, it is difficult to argue that a standardized test taken in high school and grades for college course work are measuring the same thing" This is very true. You can't really compare someone's standardized test scores to the grades they are receiving in college. There are so many different factors that affect how someone did on certain tests, such as the SATs. Just because someone may have scored highly on the SATs, doesn't mean that they're going to do well in college. Kohn touches on many of these arguments throughout his article and it becomes clear that he is not guilty of fallacies.
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