EAKIN MARK E wrote: > I told my class on the syllabus that 70 to 79 was a C. Today I reminded > them of that and asked "is a 79 a B"? (They wrote their answers > anonymously on sheets of paper and turned in the pages). When I was > through counting the responses, almost the entire class of seventy students > thought a 79 was a B. > > Is this common in your university?
If by 'this' you mean 'squeezing for everything you can get', yes. And remember, 'hope blooms eternal'. . . ================================================================= Instructions for joining and leaving this list, remarks about the problem of INAPPROPRIATE MESSAGES, and archives are available at: . http://jse.stat.ncsu.edu/ . =================================================================
