Cancer Posted February 7, 2020 Report Share Posted February 7, 2020 Well, for a few minutes it would. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted February 7, 2020 Report Share Posted February 7, 2020 https://m.imgur.com/qwjUBCU Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted February 7, 2020 Report Share Posted February 7, 2020 As someone who lived in that era ... Actually, no, people didn't think that lack of access to information caused stupidity. Lack of access to information is (or was) a contributing factor to the condition of ignorance. Stupidity is independent of access to information. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted February 8, 2020 Report Share Posted February 8, 2020 In the last 13 days we have accumulated more than 15 cm of rain here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted February 9, 2020 Report Share Posted February 9, 2020 Watched a few minutes of an XFL game this morning, simply because it was on after the Premier League match ended. I hadn't realized the Seattle club had hired Jim Zorn as head coach, who will be a household name here in Seattle forever from his role as the first successful Seahawks QB. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted February 9, 2020 Report Share Posted February 9, 2020 18 hours ago, Cancer said: In the last 13 days we have accumulated more than 15 cm of rain here. That’s a lot of rain. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted February 9, 2020 Report Share Posted February 9, 2020 15 cm of rain in two weeks would be apocalyptic where I live. Our total annual precipitation is only around 40 cm. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted February 9, 2020 Report Share Posted February 9, 2020 15 cm of rain is about the equivalence of about a meter and a half of snow. That's a lot. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted February 9, 2020 Report Share Posted February 9, 2020 The beginnings of the mud around Ypres got established where I park my car outside my house. Other places have flooding. Good thing I'm at basically the top of a hill. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted February 9, 2020 Report Share Posted February 9, 2020 Drrraaaiiinage! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted February 11, 2020 Report Share Posted February 11, 2020 FWIW, that 15 cm in 13 days broke lots of records here, by considerable margins. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted February 11, 2020 Report Share Posted February 11, 2020 I was feeling pretty good about this class on their first exam, but when I shuffled the papers proor to grading the last page I seem to have inadvertently sorted them by student ability, with highest ability toward the top. The last 15 papers are gonna kill me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted February 11, 2020 Report Share Posted February 11, 2020 I used to sort them with the best students on the bottom. Because they usually get the same wrong answers, it helped to figure out how to grade a given wrong answer early in the stack. There were always one or two really... creative... wrong answers but otherwise this sorting method sped things up considerably. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted February 11, 2020 Report Share Posted February 11, 2020 I grade one page at a time, anonymously, and shuffle papers randomly between pages to minimize damage done by the halo effect (after a good answer, I'm more generous for a few papers; after a bad answer, I'm harsher than usual for a few papers), and to maintain consistency in how I grade a given problem. All this is fairness issue control. Also, this being the first exam, I don't know which ones are the good students yet. I do the compare-among-best-students thing after it's done to see things where I fell down in getting them prepared. But not until everything's graded. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted February 11, 2020 Report Share Posted February 11, 2020 HAH! Grading done, but I have yet to do sums. And copy sums into grade book. And do an illustrative curve. EDIT: Pity I teach in half an hour; at home, it'd be time for a congratulatory (and cool-down) shot of Irish. Besides, it's only 0908 PST. Little early for that yet. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted February 11, 2020 Report Share Posted February 11, 2020 Irish coffee, perhaps? I mean, coffee is a morning thing, isn't it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted February 11, 2020 Report Share Posted February 11, 2020 Mmm, curves ... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted February 12, 2020 Report Share Posted February 12, 2020 Sums and recording done. Just the curve left. Already had a beer with dinner. Will have whiskey later. Then I will fall sideways and sleep for several hours. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted February 12, 2020 Report Share Posted February 12, 2020 What wavefunction will you use for the curve? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted February 12, 2020 Report Share Posted February 12, 2020 Crispy-fried to a crackly crunch. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted February 12, 2020 Report Share Posted February 12, 2020 Mmm, student rinds ... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted February 12, 2020 Report Share Posted February 12, 2020 I was told once about this bizarre thing called the "Texas Curve". Basically, you take the score out of 100, find the square root, and then multiply that by 10. That's the Texas Curve score. I could think of no useful purpose for such a thing beyond grade inflation. Which is something some parents want, I suppose. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted February 12, 2020 Report Share Posted February 12, 2020 What about a negative Texas Curve? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tech Posted February 12, 2020 Report Share Posted February 12, 2020 Sounds like Texas Curve could be about a big curve in a road, since Texans do everything big (so they say). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted February 12, 2020 Report Share Posted February 12, 2020 2 hours ago, Pariah said: I was told once about this bizarre thing called the "Texas Curve". Basically, you take the score out of 100, find the square root, and then multiply that by 10. That's the Texas Curve score. I could think of no useful purpose for such a thing beyond grade inflation. Which is something some parents want, I suppose. An arctan function would the same sort of thing (and would compress those twerps with more than 100% because of extra credit), but I know enough about Texas to know that only commies would even know what an arctan function is. Pariah 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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