[lit-ideas] Re: The Meaning of Life: Isn't there a wikipedia article on that?
- From: "Julie Krueger" <juliereneb@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2007 02:52:14 -0500
My personal perspective, upon seeing the test and my daughters' answers, and
the corrections made by the teacher, was that I could probably make an
equally good case for any of the three options for all of the questions.
One had to somehow telepathically intuit what the teacher expected of each
question in order to pass the test. <shrug> -- I would've failed it.
Julie Krueger
at least not as smart as an 8th grade teacher, apparently.
On 10/10/07, Robert Paul <rpaul@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Julie Krueger wrote:
>
> [a lot of weird questions]
>
> > Would you pass? Are you smarter than an eighth grader?
>
> Pass? Smarter than? If you'll permit me to observe, this seems to imply
> that if one passes one is smarter than an eighth grader, which seems to
> be based on the assumption that no eighth graders will pass (or that if
> any eighth grader does pass, he or she is as smart as a fish but no
> smarter).
>
> (It also seems to imply that there are 'right' responses to these ditzy
> 'questions,' although almost every one of them could be construed in
> god-knows-how-many different ways, as Donal has already opined.)
>
> Robert Paul,
> relatively untested
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