but, since students are so conditioned to be thinking of an exam as being some fixed time limit ... the more natural time that examinees "would" spend if not time constrained ... might be rather hard to find in the short run
At 10:33 PM 6/7/03 -0400, Stan Brown wrote:
Thom Baguley wrote in sci.stat.edu: >Time elapsed before leaving exam hall.
I love this example: it will relate directly to a phenomenon every student is familiar with.
>(Left skewed with a slight blip close to zero and a peak at the end IMO).
My O matches yours on this.
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