Re: grading on the curve

[Robert Dawson]

From: pbern10

> When I was an undergraduate at Georgia Tech in the late 1970s, an
> instructor for an upper level engineering class in which I was enroled
> raised cut offs if necessary to attain a normal distribution. We were
> *very* annoyed, but at GT in those days, no student would dare complain.

    I'm curious - did that instructor _call_ it a "normal distribution"? (As
cutoffs imply a discrete distribution, it was clearly nothing of the kind.
What (s)he was attaining was some specified discrete distribution.)

    -Robert Dawson