John Knight <johnknight at usa.com> wrote in message
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>> "Parse Tree" <parsetree at hotmail.com> wrote in message
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>> Again, it's your "opinion" that the questions were "ambiguous", but the
> simple fact is that you can't argue they weren't as clear as a bell to
those
> who understood the problem, can you?
>> So is H04 "ambiguous", or is it just that missing 3 1/2 billion brain
cells
> makes it seem that way?
Parse Tree is a man, you stupid FUCK.
>> You were even given the correct answer, and you STILL thought it's
> "ambiguous", so the answer to the question about what it takes to educate
> the uneducable is: it cannot be done.
>> Hopefully you realize that you can't change the laws of physics by just
> claiming they're "ambiguous", right?
>> We're not starting from scratch with this question, right? You've had
> plenty of time for it to sink in, and it still seems "ambiguous" to you,
> right? You can't argue that the 54% of Swedish boys who got it right did
so
> just by guessing, or that this was a question which they'd naturally learn
> because of the Swedish environment (excluding the academic and
intellectual
> environment, that is), or that they'd agree with you that it was
> "ambiguous", right?
>> It was primarily because you "made certain assumptions in [your] answer"
> that you can't get it right now, which is a clue about why American girls
> did so poorly on tests like this.
>> Here's the $64 million question: if American girls were taught the WRONG
> thing in classrooms, then why were the 43% of American boys sitting right
> next to them taught the RIGHT thing? And, of course, why were so many
more
> boys from other countries (which spend far less than us for education as a
%
> of GDP) taught the correct thing?
>> The answer is that it has nothing to do with the classroom, at all. This
is
> a problem that 12 year old boys work out on their own, with no help at all
> from their female teachers who "think" it's just as "ambiguous" as you do.
>> American fathers and their children have had plenty of teachers like that,
> and those "teachers" are as wrong as the day is long, aren't they?
>> Girls don't usually think about things like this, and when they try--they
> always flub it, just as every one of the girls on this forum just did.
>> John Knight
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