Posted by alexandra_k on January 31, 2014, at 20:23:21
In reply to Re: why am i so horrible?, posted by alexandra_k on January 31, 2014, at 20:07:27
i think i didn't get to see my math test (when i showed interest she sort of grabbed it back away from me) was because there was a typo in it.
one of the questions asked us to fill in the blank on the basis of some info they gave us. it was basically... demonstrating the associative or perhaps commutative property of addition. a question like that. only... they left a 0 off one of the numbers - so... it didn't actually demonstrate whatever property i suspect it was supposed to, after all. anyway... i said 'if there is supposed to be a zero there then this. otherwise i'm going to have to try and balance these somehow (since i was supposed to use the previous info to help me) and... whatever. did something.
sigh.
one of the things was about captain cook, too... about how he noticed that the ships mast disappeared into the horizon in the distance. that that PROVED to him that the earth was round. Which of course, it didn't. while it was evidence in SUPPORT empirical evidence isn't at all the right sort of thing to count as a proof (category error, people!)
we have to do 'english language dx screening'. first question: a theory is equivalent to:
the answer is supposed to be:
a hypothesis.
why do English people get to make up these tests?????
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