Think Differently
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Think Differently
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#2nice story.
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#4Nope: http://www.snopes.com/college/exam/barometer.asp
This story maintains its value whether fact or fiction.
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#5I had a similar experience as an undergraduate, except that I didn't get the marks: I was taking a course on differential equations, and one of the final exam questions was to demonstrate that a solution existed to a given system.
I gave a very elegant non-constructive proof which showed that a solution existed without giving any hint of what the solution was -- but the instructor expected students to provide a solution. I ended up deciding that it wasn't worth the effort of formally appealing the grade, but I still think that I should have gotten the marks -- it wasn't my fault that the exam didn't ask the question the instructor intended to ask.
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#6It is funny how we are being taught other people's truth as opposed to digging for our own. And then magically when you get to college or the working field they want you to come up with answers to real problems. Well "I don't remember being taught how to think for myself, but let me Google the answer".
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#7Not only is this older than the web, but the fact that it's a bunch of made-up bullshit undermines its point.
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#8Nope: http://www.snopes.com/college/exam/barometer.asp
This story maintains its value whether fact or fiction.
I think there's a degree of deception involved when you try to pin stories like these to actual people. If you leave out the last line, yes, the story has value. But the fabricated link makes one more likely to dismiss the story as junk.
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#9What is the conventional way to do it?
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#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
This story maintains its value whether fact or fiction.
I think there's a degree of deception involved when you try to pin stories like these to actual people. If you leave out the last line, yes, the story has value. But the fabricated link makes one more likely to dismiss the story as junk.
and the misspelled name doesn't help either.