Fitness increases vary across the 10 soft skills, with some skills showing small negative increases under compensatory aggregation¶

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q2 i? Per-skill percentage increases differ across the 10 soft skills: Soft Skill 5 shows the largest median and interquartile range, while Soft Skills 4 and 6 are among the least positively affected, with a small part of negative increases. → Luis Alberto Pinos Ullauri 2025

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Luis Alberto Pinos Ullauri 2025¶

Luis Alberto Pinos Ullauri, Alexis Lebis, Abir Karami, Mathieu Vermeulen, Anthony Fleury, Wim Van den Noortgate. (2025). A Recommender System of Postgraduate Courses Based on Soft Skills: A Psychometric-inspired Approach. Int J Artif Intell Educ 35. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40593-025-00463-z

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Box-plot analysis (Fig. 9) of per-skill percentage fitness increases in Specialisation 3 under the Compensatory Linear Fitness. The article reports "Soft Skill 5 has both the largest median and the largest interquartile range", and Soft Skills 4 and 6 include some negative increases.

"It can be seen that the increases vary across the 10 soft skills. Soft Skill 5 has both the largest median and the largest interquartile range (length of the box, which contains 50% of the students’ percentage increases)."

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