Posted by baboon on July 31, 2001 at 01:15:01:
In Reply to: Re: germane rant - please read posted by ... on July 30, 2001 at 15:28:14:
I miss Downing!!!
I feel bad for dvw with a new baby, a new job and a new state to live in.
I hate his teaching philosophy. If he would have have taken a hundred random students from campus and given them an exam or project, the grades would have been normalized. Our grades at the end will be normalized as if we were truly random or as if we did not learn anything. A bunch of monkeys would produce a normalized curve. In most classes profs try to make sure that most people learn most of the stuff. That doesn't happen here. To do well here one needs to be WAY better than everybody else. If everybody does well then everybody gets a C! OH JOY! I wish I had never taken Statistics. I hope everyone working will do well. We only have 8 more classes to go....