Bob LeChevalier wrote:
>> Jet <thatjetnospam at yahoo.com> wrote:
> >John Knight wrote:
> >> Don't ask anybody for the answer, ok? This is a closed book quiz. Scout's
> >> honor?
> >
> >I won't bother until you give the answer H04, you've had a day to ask
> >around.
>> H04 is an interesting question for the nincompoop to have referred to. It
> turns out that the nation that did best on H04 was Israel, and among the
> Israeli students, the girls got it right more than the boys (57.6% to 51%).
> So much for his anti-semitic, anti-female agenda.
Too good. :)
> Australian, Italian, and Latvian girls also outperformed the boys of those
> countries on that question. Switzerland, which otherwise dominated the TIMSS
> advanced math and science results, had only 13.6% of its girls get that one
> correct, MUCH worse than the US girls and Swiss boys, and much less than the
> nincompoops guessing assumption. However, French boys did worse than
> American girls as well, at 19.7% correct. And the Swiss boys did worse as
> well, at 22.0% correct.
>> Overall, more students of the various countries chose answer B, which was
> incorrect, than chose the correct answer (which I leave unstated in case the
> nincompoop decides to take you up on your challenge - however, since the
> letter answer is in the test file, you should insist that he explain it to
> get credit).
I did. So, he started calling me "nigger".
And those two answers accounted for 70.6% of all answers, which
> negates the nincompoop's random guessing hypothesis, since one of the 4
> answers was only chosen 11.5% of the time.
He even stated, don't remember if it was this question or not, that a
negative number of people got the question right without guessing!
J
>> lojbab
