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yesterday I did a test in statistics and one question was about predicting the results of the test we were currently making based on the results of the first test. The conclusion I came to in the assignment was that if you scored a 6/10 on your first test, you would score something around a 4.5/10 on your second test.
This assignment really pissed me off, I scored a 4.5/10 on my first test and now the teacher is telling me, while I'm doing my best on the second test, that I only have a snowball's chance in hell to get a decent grade on what I'm doing.
Do you think it would be reasonable to file a complaint against the teacher who made the test, [chat]?
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BobCescaIs a girlBirmingham, UKRegistered Userregular
edited January 2008
I would. To do something likt that during the second test is not exactly helping anything and could potentially affect you such that you do badly 'cos said teacher fucked you up.
I would. To do something likt that during the second test is not exactly helping anything and could potentially affect you such that you do badly 'cos said teacher fucked you up.
or something...
That's my line of reasoning as well, but I'm infamous for holding grudges against the ruling class that would make Fidel Castro proud.
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AlectharAlan ShoreWe're not territorial about that sort of thing, are we?Registered Userregular
yesterday I did a test in statistics and one question was about predicting the results of the test we were currently making based on the results of the first test. The conclusion I came to in the assignment was that if you scored a 6/10 on your first test, you would score something around a 4.5/10 on your second test.
This assignment really pissed me off, I scored a 4.5/10 on my first test and now the teacher is telling me, while I'm doing my best on the second test, that I only have a snowball's chance in hell to get a decent grade on what I'm doing.
Do you think it would be reasonable to file a complaint against the teacher who made the test, [chat]?
Goddamnit Will, no, I'm much more ambitious than that. I'm thinking big this time.
There may be still be some amount of fellatio involved, but what the shit does that really matter? It's my body and my life. I don't understand why there's such a pejorative attached to those who satisfy themselves by willingly satisfying another.
I acquiesce to demand, and everyone is better for it. That's spot-on mutualism.
And I know I said I was going to bed but I was actually watching Full Metal Alchemist (what inspired me) and I decided to come back and I didn't really want to leave such a base comment uncontested. So. No. I am not going to suck cock to pay for a World of Warcraft subscription. That's $15/mo -- I can make that much out of thin air. I don't need to suck cock for that.
I'm thinking bigger now. I want to get out of my rut once and for all and I have the plan and now I'm really going to go to bed so that I can float away to that happy place which I'm going to make real, this time, for good. So goodnight. For real. This time.
yesterday I did a test in statistics and one question was about predicting the results of the test we were currently making based on the results of the first test. The conclusion I came to in the assignment was that if you scored a 6/10 on your first test, you would score something around a 4.5/10 on your second test.
This assignment really pissed me off, I scored a 4.5/10 on my first test and now the teacher is telling me, while I'm doing my best on the second test, that I only have a snowball's chance in hell to get a decent grade on what I'm doing.
Do you think it would be reasonable to file a complaint against the teacher who made the test, [chat]?
Goddamnit Will, no, I'm much more ambitious than that. I'm thinking big this time.
There may be still be some amount of fellatio involved, but what the shit does that really matter? It's my body and my life. I don't understand why there's such a pejorative attached to those who satisfy themselves by willingly satisfying another.
I acquiesce to demand, and everyone is better for it. That's spot-on mutualism.
And I know I said I was going to bed but I was actually watching Full Metal Alchemist (what inspired me) and I decided to come back and I didn't really want to leave such a base comment uncontested. So. No. I am not going to suck cock to pay for a World of Warcraft subscription. That's $15/mo -- I can make that much out of thin air. I don't need to suck cock for that.
I'm thinking bigger now. I want to get out of my rut once and for all and I have the plan and now I'm really going to go to bed so that I can float away to that happy place which I'm going to make real, this time, for good. So goodnight. For real. This time.
You're not going to try to resurrect the dead are you?
yesterday I did a test in statistics and one question was about predicting the results of the test we were currently making based on the results of the first test. The conclusion I came to in the assignment was that if you scored a 6/10 on your first test, you would score something around a 4.5/10 on your second test.
This assignment really pissed me off, I scored a 4.5/10 on my first test and now the teacher is telling me, while I'm doing my best on the second test, that I only have a snowball's chance in hell to get a decent grade on what I'm doing.
Do you think it would be reasonable to file a complaint against the teacher who made the test, [chat]?
You should demonstrate that the covariance of successive trials in test scores is minor and that your statistics prof is full of shit. Show your work.
It would be unreasonable. Professors do crap like that all the time. I'd say he/she was springing for a joke and it didn't work.
Who would have thought teabagging was not fun for the person on the receiving end. :P
Admittedly the joke was in bad taste, but how accurate was the problem, statistically speaking? I mean, if she's giving you certain data and whatnot to use, maybe she fudged it so that the right answer was what you got, but that it wouldn't actually have any real relation to the actual scores. So she was fooling with you guys, but the problem's data predicts an outcome that isn't actually accurate in terms of what you did.
Was that just really confusing, or did I get my point across?
Admittedly the joke was in bad taste, but how accurate was the problem, statistically speaking? I mean, if she's giving you certain data and whatnot to use, maybe she fudged it so that the right answer was what you got, but that it wouldn't actually have any real relation to the actual scores. So she was fooling with you guys, but the problem's data predicts an outcome that isn't actually accurate in terms of what you did.
Was that just really confusing, or did I get my point across?
I understand what you mean, but why would they come up with false results just to make everyone calculate that they are utter failures? Chances are they just used the results of last year and thought "hah, a question that should be interesting to students!"
*edit: about 50% of the students fail this course, we have people in class who are taking this course for the eighth time now.
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Irond WillWARNING: NO HURTFUL COMMENTS, PLEASE!!!!!Cambridge. MAModeratorMod Emeritus
Admittedly the joke was in bad taste, but how accurate was the problem, statistically speaking? I mean, if she's giving you certain data and whatnot to use, maybe she fudged it so that the right answer was what you got, but that it wouldn't actually have any real relation to the actual scores. So she was fooling with you guys, but the problem's data predicts an outcome that isn't actually accurate in terms of what you did.
Was that just really confusing, or did I get my point across?
I understand what you mean, but why would they come up with false results just to make everyone calculate that they are utter failures? Chances are they just used the results of last year and thought "hah, a question that should be interesting to students!"
Yeah, the idea is probably that students can "relate" to it or something, because we spend so much time ruminating over our grades or whatever. That and it's exactly the kind of shit that teachers find funny amongst themselves, and the irritating ones tend to assume that their students will "get it" despite the fact that it's really only funny in the context of teaching. I'm a Special Ed teacher's aid, and I see that kind of crap all the time.
Edit: The worst teachers are often the ones who think they are the funniest. I know a 9th/10th grade history teacher who essentially does all of his teaching by movies. He's built up his sick time and is now using it to take 3 day weekends for the rest of the year, because in DoDDS you aren't required to submit written proof of illness unless you take 3 or more consecutive days of sick leave. He thinks all this is just fucking hilarious, because it's funny to rob children of an education, especially when those children have parents that die to protect the infrastructure that allows him to live comfortably while (figuratively) screwing kids.
Admittedly the joke was in bad taste, but how accurate was the problem, statistically speaking? I mean, if she's giving you certain data and whatnot to use, maybe she fudged it so that the right answer was what you got, but that it wouldn't actually have any real relation to the actual scores. So she was fooling with you guys, but the problem's data predicts an outcome that isn't actually accurate in terms of what you did.
Was that just really confusing, or did I get my point across?
I understand what you mean, but why would they come up with false results just to make everyone calculate that they are utter failures? Chances are they just used the results of last year and thought "hah, a question that should be interesting to students!"
*edit: about 50% of the students fail this course, we have people in class who are taking this course for the eighth time now.
Probably that's it, Aldo. In my experience, teachers of realtively dry subjects like statistics often make some effort to "draw in" the students - who are generally borderline comatose after about 15 minutes of a statistics lecture. I think at my school the prof used, like, Football matchup scores.
Also, professors who teach subjects that students routinely fail tend towards snideness - as though others' failures to internalize their own arcane knowledge validates their superiority.
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Irond WillWARNING: NO HURTFUL COMMENTS, PLEASE!!!!!Cambridge. MAModeratorMod Emeritus
Admittedly the joke was in bad taste, but how accurate was the problem, statistically speaking? I mean, if she's giving you certain data and whatnot to use, maybe she fudged it so that the right answer was what you got, but that it wouldn't actually have any real relation to the actual scores. So she was fooling with you guys, but the problem's data predicts an outcome that isn't actually accurate in terms of what you did.
Was that just really confusing, or did I get my point across?
I understand what you mean, but why would they come up with false results just to make everyone calculate that they are utter failures? Chances are they just used the results of last year and thought "hah, a question that should be interesting to students!"
Yeah, the idea is probably that students can "relate" to it or something, because we spend so much time ruminating over our grades or whatever. That and it's exactly the kind of shit that teachers find funny amongst themselves, and the irritating ones tend to assume that their students will "get it" despite the fact that it's really only funny in the context of teaching. I'm a Special Ed teacher's aid, and I see that kind of crap all the time.
Ah, statistics. You really can say anything with statistics. Meaningful and absolutely worthless findings from the same set of data? Statistics, baby!
When Germans reject the very concept of statistics surely the end times are upon us.
Really? There's an old saying (probably from around WW2, credited to Churchill, but probably false - notice the many "probables" in there?): Do not trust a statistic that wasn't forged by yourself.
It's probably (hehe) been used for propaganda reasons (backstabbing Brits *duuurrr*), but it has a grain of truth to it.
Yeah, the idea is probably that students can "relate" to it or something, because we spend so much time ruminating over our grades or whatever. That and it's exactly the kind of shit that teachers find funny amongst themselves, and the irritating ones tend to assume that their students will "get it" despite the fact that it's really only funny in the context of teaching. I'm a Special Ed teacher's aid, and I see that kind of crap all the time.
Edit: The worst teachers are often the ones who think they are the funniest. I know a 9th/10th grade history teacher who essentially does all of his teaching by movies. He's built up his sick time and is now using it to take 3 day weekends for the rest of the year, because in DoDDS you aren't required to submit written proof of illness unless you take 3 or more consecutive days of sick leave.
Hmm, if I score a low grade (thus failing the course, thus having to do it again next year) I will gather some support and pick a fight with the teacher. Shit like this has to stop, but people won't believe me if I don't get something out of it for myself.
Goddamnit I hate Vista so much. It won't let me permanently change any of the folders on the C: drive so that they aren't freaking Read-Only. Must kill...
There are fixes for this, but it's down and dirty and finding the actual solutions requires a considerable amount of Google-fu. The laptop I'm on now was a Vista boot, but after weeks of reconfiguring and reconfiguring and still having occasional issues, I just bought an OEM install of XP and have been coasting ever since.
Hi5 "realized the only parts of Vista he didn't hate were the parts that were unchanged from XP" buddy!
Probably that's it, Aldo. In my experience, teachers of realtively dry subjects like statistics often make some effort to "draw in" the students - who are generally borderline comatose after about 15 minutes of a statistics lecture. I think at my school the prof used, like, Football matchup scores.
Also, professors who teach subjects that students routinely fail tend towards snideness - as though others' failures to internalize their own arcane knowledge validates their superiority.
The teacher is convinced that the only reason kids don't pass this course is because they are lazy bitches who don't do their homework. You should have seen him railing against another student when the guy admitted he didn't make his homework.
I asked the teacher about it later and he said that the only "motivated students" are the ones doing PhD's.
Seriously you can say lots of meaningful things with statistics, you just have to make sure your experimental design isn't deliberately fucked in a particular direction. Which would make your stats fairly unique.
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AlectharAlan ShoreWe're not territorial about that sort of thing, are we?Registered Userregular
Less actually among the SpEd teachers, but we're all in the same school building and teacher's lounge, and at least 3/4 of the Math department are the exact kinds of fucks/fuckettes that Aldo has for Statistics.
And I think Vista would be awesome if it were just XP functionality but prettier.
Ah, statistics. You really can say anything with statistics. Meaningful and absolutely worthless findings from the same set of data? Statistics, baby!
When Germans reject the very concept of statistics surely the end times are upon us.
Really? There's an old saying (probably from around WW2, credited to Churchill, but probably false - notice the many "probables" in there?): Do not trust a statistic that wasn't forged by yourself.
It's probably (hehe) been used for propaganda reasons (backstabbing Brits *duuurrr*), but it has a grain of truth to it.
All I know is that all the German physicists were nuts for induction and statistics. I mean Thermodynamics and material physics and even the basis for quantum theory are all German fields and holy shit they read like trying to make sense of a computer core dump.
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Meh.
Just scored last minute Big Day Out tickets!
wooooo!
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goodnight [chat].
Please tell me that it doesn't involve sucking cock for WoW fees.
I've heard crazy ideas. Involving lizards.
Well christ, that's a shit page starter.
That's better
I told her she should replace the little elephant with a bag of money.
yesterday I did a test in statistics and one question was about predicting the results of the test we were currently making based on the results of the first test. The conclusion I came to in the assignment was that if you scored a 6/10 on your first test, you would score something around a 4.5/10 on your second test.
This assignment really pissed me off, I scored a 4.5/10 on my first test and now the teacher is telling me, while I'm doing my best on the second test, that I only have a snowball's chance in hell to get a decent grade on what I'm doing.
Do you think it would be reasonable to file a complaint against the teacher who made the test, [chat]?
or something...
Solution: Take Calculus. Statistics blows.
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There may be still be some amount of fellatio involved, but what the shit does that really matter? It's my body and my life. I don't understand why there's such a pejorative attached to those who satisfy themselves by willingly satisfying another.
I acquiesce to demand, and everyone is better for it. That's spot-on mutualism.
And I know I said I was going to bed but I was actually watching Full Metal Alchemist (what inspired me) and I decided to come back and I didn't really want to leave such a base comment uncontested. So. No. I am not going to suck cock to pay for a World of Warcraft subscription. That's $15/mo -- I can make that much out of thin air. I don't need to suck cock for that.
I'm thinking bigger now. I want to get out of my rut once and for all and I have the plan and now I'm really going to go to bed so that I can float away to that happy place which I'm going to make real, this time, for good. So goodnight. For real. This time.
Glad to see I'm not being angry over something others consider normal.
*edit: g'night Obo.
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Agreed, Statistics makes the hate flow.
You should demonstrate that the covariance of successive trials in test scores is minor and that your statistics prof is full of shit. Show your work.
Admittedly the joke was in bad taste, but how accurate was the problem, statistically speaking? I mean, if she's giving you certain data and whatnot to use, maybe she fudged it so that the right answer was what you got, but that it wouldn't actually have any real relation to the actual scores. So she was fooling with you guys, but the problem's data predicts an outcome that isn't actually accurate in terms of what you did.
Was that just really confusing, or did I get my point across?
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The probability of you castrating me is rather low. Then again, you're in Ohio, aren't you? Damn, there go my testicles!
*edit: about 50% of the students fail this course, we have people in class who are taking this course for the eighth time now.
When Germans reject the very concept of statistics surely the end times are upon us.
Yeah, the idea is probably that students can "relate" to it or something, because we spend so much time ruminating over our grades or whatever. That and it's exactly the kind of shit that teachers find funny amongst themselves, and the irritating ones tend to assume that their students will "get it" despite the fact that it's really only funny in the context of teaching. I'm a Special Ed teacher's aid, and I see that kind of crap all the time.
Edit: The worst teachers are often the ones who think they are the funniest. I know a 9th/10th grade history teacher who essentially does all of his teaching by movies. He's built up his sick time and is now using it to take 3 day weekends for the rest of the year, because in DoDDS you aren't required to submit written proof of illness unless you take 3 or more consecutive days of sick leave. He thinks all this is just fucking hilarious, because it's funny to rob children of an education, especially when those children have parents that die to protect the infrastructure that allows him to live comfortably while (figuratively) screwing kids.
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Probably that's it, Aldo. In my experience, teachers of realtively dry subjects like statistics often make some effort to "draw in" the students - who are generally borderline comatose after about 15 minutes of a statistics lecture. I think at my school the prof used, like, Football matchup scores.
Also, professors who teach subjects that students routinely fail tend towards snideness - as though others' failures to internalize their own arcane knowledge validates their superiority.
Among special ed teachers? That's ice cold, man.
Really? There's an old saying (probably from around WW2, credited to Churchill, but probably false - notice the many "probables" in there?): Do not trust a statistic that wasn't forged by yourself.
It's probably (hehe) been used for propaganda reasons (backstabbing Brits *duuurrr*), but it has a grain of truth to it.
I asked the teacher about it later and he said that the only "motivated students" are the ones doing PhD's.
Less actually among the SpEd teachers, but we're all in the same school building and teacher's lounge, and at least 3/4 of the Math department are the exact kinds of fucks/fuckettes that Aldo has for Statistics.
And I think Vista would be awesome if it were just XP functionality but prettier.
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All I know is that all the German physicists were nuts for induction and statistics. I mean Thermodynamics and material physics and even the basis for quantum theory are all German fields and holy shit they read like trying to make sense of a computer core dump.