The bureaucrats who decided to use a computer to assign grades are guilty of technochauvinism. They thought that the algorithm would offer objective, fair grades and that the computational solution would be sufficient in a time of global crisis. It wasn't, because a grade in education is a social decision, not merely a mathematical one. Computers are rarely the fairest solution when it comes to social decisions.

— More Than a Glitch by Meredith Broussard (Page 69)