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Topic	My professor is an ass and decided to punish the whole class
COVxy 04/01/22 4:49:39 PM #28:	I mean, it's just blatently silly. In no universe composing humans, real life actual humans and not cartoons, does a professor get revenge on a class for beating the mean by 10 points by spending hours constructing a new test. The motive is fucking stupid and the idea that a professor would waste their time like that is ludicrous. What's more likely the case is that the first exam was largely easy review material, which is deceptively easy in comparison to the rest of the course. Students got surprised by the difficulty of the real material, and a "i bet he made it really hard to get back at us for beating the mean on the first exam" spread its way through gullible students who view professors as adversaries for making them learn things. --- =E[(x-E[x])(y-E[y])] <cite>COVxy posted [p:963943118] in My profess... [t:79968365]...</cite> <quote>I mean, it's just blatently silly. In no universe composing humans, real life actual humans and not cartoons, does a professor get revenge on a class for beating the mean by 10 points by spending hours constructing a new test. The motive is fucking stupid and the idea that a professor would waste their time like that is ludicrous. What's more likely the case is that the first exam was largely easy review material, which is deceptively easy in comparison to the rest of the course. Students got surprised by the difficulty of the real material, and a "i bet he made it really hard to get back at us for beating the mean on the first exam" spread its way through gullible students who view professors as adversaries for making them learn things. --- =E[(x-E[x])(y-E[y])]</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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