[lit-ideas] Re: education again
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Subject:
Re: [lit-ideas] education again
From:
John Wager <johnwager@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date:
Fri, 02 Apr 2004 21:12:20 -0600
To:
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When in doubt, and you're reduced to pure guesswork, pick the longer
answer. This gives you a slightly higher probability of being right.
Reason? To speak the truth usually requires more detailed thought, more
nuanced expression, than error. Of course a teacher COULD go to the
effort to make the "wrong" answers as long as the right one, but
teachers, as humans, tend to skip what they don't absolutely have to do.
It's easier to make shorter wrong answers; it's more difficult to make
shorter RIGHT answers. (Notice the "usually" above? That's the kind of
thing that makes right answers longer.)
Does your daughter's school want to pay me big bucks to "perform" this,
not as a film, but "live?"
JulieReneB@xxxxxxx wrote:
> In this week's newsletter from my 6th grader's Language Arts teacher:
> "We are working on practicing for multiple choice tests. We have been
> going over techniques to find correct answers. We also watched a film
> that went over test techniques."
>
> ????????
> Julie Krueger
> finally rendered speechless
>
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