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Apr. 14th, 2010 11:43 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
trinityvixenUgh, I walked out of a test puzzling over this one question that I could not, for the life of me, figure out why it was so bass-ackwards. Immediately figured out what he probably meant as soon as I was three steps outside the door. It's a stupid mistake mostly due to stupid wording. Because I don't want to be "one of those" students (i.e. the post-bacc who ruins the curve for everyone), I'm fully prepared to accept that I should just eat the 5 points for that one. The test had substantial extra credit, which I'm sure I got right, seeing as it was one I'd done from the textbook while studying. It will more than offset the stupidity of that one question...unless I got a lot else wrong.
Great, now I'm fretting. The question, by the by, for people who know statistics, was part of a four-part question, wherein a watermelon from a particular farm had an average weight and standard deviation that followed a Normal model. The part I botched was asking about the mean weight of 12 randomly selected watermelons. I assumed it was the mean weight of the dozen melons, not the mean weight of the melons in the dozen. So I did E(X) = E(W1 + W2...) and assorted calculations instead of looking for y-bar and the SD of sigma divided by the square-root of n. It puzzled me greatly, then, why he would ask what the probability was that the average weight would be something not at all like 12xW. I should have known. But the wording was confusing. I suppose I pay the price for not clarifying.When I get the test back, you guys can tell me how reasonable it is to argue that the wording sucked. I'm fully prepared to accept, "It's worded fine, you just choked." I'm not happy about it, but if you, my statistics-equipped friends, saw it's fine, I'll accept it.
Need to stop worrying and/or kicking myself over this. Compared to the panic-attack I was having over the material that had previously seemed impenetrable prior to studying, a 5-point goof is too stupid to worry about... Nope, still kicking myself. Stupid, stupid, stupid....
Onto sillier things! My excellent friend H tweeted this picture, and I had to share with LJ peeps who might not see it on Twitter. The text of her tweet was "Sean Hannity's book where it belongs." (Only her Tweets never have capitalization, and I'm beginning to think she's an eagle**.) I assumed it would link to something typical, like when people reshelve the Bible in the fiction section. Oh no. It was so much better!
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glvalentine for this reference. I find the ALOT jokes funny, but the image of an eagle typing cracks me up. I think it's because Harvey Birdman's eagle was his secretary.
Great, now I'm fretting. The question, by the by, for people who know statistics, was part of a four-part question, wherein a watermelon from a particular farm had an average weight and standard deviation that followed a Normal model. The part I botched was asking about the mean weight of 12 randomly selected watermelons. I assumed it was the mean weight of the dozen melons, not the mean weight of the melons in the dozen. So I did E(X) = E(W1 + W2...) and assorted calculations instead of looking for y-bar and the SD of sigma divided by the square-root of n. It puzzled me greatly, then, why he would ask what the probability was that the average weight would be something not at all like 12xW. I should have known. But the wording was confusing. I suppose I pay the price for not clarifying.When I get the test back, you guys can tell me how reasonable it is to argue that the wording sucked. I'm fully prepared to accept, "It's worded fine, you just choked." I'm not happy about it, but if you, my statistics-equipped friends, saw it's fine, I'll accept it.
Need to stop worrying and/or kicking myself over this. Compared to the panic-attack I was having over the material that had previously seemed impenetrable prior to studying, a 5-point goof is too stupid to worry about... Nope, still kicking myself. Stupid, stupid, stupid....
Onto sillier things! My excellent friend H tweeted this picture, and I had to share with LJ peeps who might not see it on Twitter. The text of her tweet was "Sean Hannity's book where it belongs." (Only her Tweets never have capitalization, and I'm beginning to think she's an eagle**.) I assumed it would link to something typical, like when people reshelve the Bible in the fiction section. Oh no. It was so much better!
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glvalentine for this reference. I find the ALOT jokes funny, but the image of an eagle typing cracks me up. I think it's because Harvey Birdman's eagle was his secretary.
