A few weeks ago I read a review of an education resource I'd written. I laughed out loud when I saw how it scored for value for money. Four out of five. Not bad. Except it was free.
After I finished chortling about the cheek of it, I got thinking. Maybe there was a subtle point. Maybe it was acknowledging the truth that nothing is really free. Finding a resource online among the thousands of others, reading it, figuring out if it's any good, downloading it...all takes time. And time, like money, is a finite resource that we're often short of. So it can make sense to grade for value for money, even if no one has forked out any actual cash for it.
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