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.