scream-of-consciousness;
"If you're trying to change minds and influence people it's probably not a good idea to say that virtually all elected Democrats are liars, but what the hell."
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Saturday, November 05, 2011
KISS
Today's Lesson
A philosophy professor asked his students just
one question for their final exam.
"How are you going to
make me believe that this chair in front of you doesn't exist?"
All the students but one took the full hour to write several page
answers. The one, a known slacker, took just 10 seconds to
finish and turn in
his "A+" paper. He wrote:
"What Chair?"
Lesson: Don't
make simple things complicated. Obama should be Impeached.
I ended up in a freshman physiology class in college. On our first test was a 5 pt. bonus question: Which of the following will the greatest number of students in this class select as the correct answer: a) This one because it's first. b) This one because it's not first. c) This one because it makes no sense. d) This one because the other choices are stupid.
Since there was no way to determine what my classmates would pick, I didn't waste any time and just randomly checked one, and earned myself 5 pts.
Our second test had the same question only asking for the answer that the least number of students would select. Again I just checked one and earned 5 pts.
Third test - same choices - only the answer that was which choice the average number of students will pick. Again I checked one without thinking and got 5 pts.
On our final was a 20 pt. bonus question: "Only one student out of 183 of you got all three bonus questions right on the first three tests, which answer will that student select as the correct answer" and then the same four choices.
I thought about it for a moment, realized that I was the determining factor for that problem, and chose not to answer the question.
I ended up in a freshman physiology class in college. On our first test was a 5 pt. bonus question: Which of the following will the greatest number of students in this class select as the correct answer:
ReplyDeletea) This one because it's first.
b) This one because it's not first.
c) This one because it makes no sense.
d) This one because the other choices are stupid.
Since there was no way to determine what my classmates would pick, I didn't waste any time and just randomly checked one, and earned myself 5 pts.
Our second test had the same question only asking for the answer that the least number of students would select. Again I just checked one and earned 5 pts.
Third test - same choices - only the answer that was which choice the average number of students will pick. Again I checked one without thinking and got 5 pts.
On our final was a 20 pt. bonus question: "Only one student out of 183 of you got all three bonus questions right on the first three tests, which answer will that student select as the correct answer" and then the same four choices.
I thought about it for a moment, realized that I was the determining factor for that problem, and chose not to answer the question.
Awesome, David. That'll be on our wall of interesting question tomorrow (we're IT geeks).
ReplyDeleteThis one's been going around:
If you choose an answer to this question at random, what is the chance you will be correct?
A) 25%
B) 50%
C) 60%
D) 25%