How does someone...

Receive a negative 1 on a multiple choice test?

I got a 38 out of 40 without even studying.....

don't answer a single question, and spell your name wrong.

which is interesting, because you can never get an entire class of say 100 kids to all get their crap entered right on the scantrons for a test. you'd think they'd put a little more thought or effort into getting it right, but no. i had a chemistry teacher that said she'd give the entire class an A in the course if on one of the four exams nobody in the class screwed up entering their name, student id #, etc and it never happened

also the ranges appear to be non-inclusive. at the bottom, there is a range for 35.9-40 containing 109 and then a range for 40 containing one.

I had a funny test happening at school last week. I was sick on the day of a chem test, wrote the teacher and email he said he would just give me a grade based on an average of my other 3 tests. I said alright and didn't think much about it until yesterday. I went up to his office to get a copy of the test to study from for finals and found out the class average on the test I missed was 50 points...after he added a 25 point corrective . Sure as hell made me happy to get my grade based on an average of my other tests.

On a semi-related note:

I took a BMI test yesterday online, taking my measurements and all that jazz. (Don't worry, this IS related.)

5'9", 145lbs, 28" waist, 16.5" neck. I broke the test.

It said i had NEGATIVE 2.7% body fat. Huh what?

So.... i think i failed. Much like the tester that "scored" a -1.

The way there's no scores between like 31 and 23.6 leads me to believe that it might have given zeroes to people who were supposed to take it but didn't.

edit: meant 3.1, not 31! Sorry

Stuc wrote: The way there's no scores between like 31 and 23.6 leads me to believe that it might have given zeroes to people who were supposed to take it but didn't.

Or the test was just that easy....he said he regraded them multiple times just to ensure that the grades were correct.

That happens when a software developer initializes the data with a -1 ;)

93celicaGT2 wrote: On a semi-related note: I took a BMI test yesterday online, taking my measurements and all that jazz. (Don't worry, this IS related.) 5'9", 145lbs, 28" waist, 16.5" neck. I broke the test. It said i had NEGATIVE 2.7% body fat. Huh what? So.... i think i failed. Much like the tester that "scored" a -1.

Those things are all BS. Sorry, I just don't believe them at all. We had to do them for P.E., and my body fat went from 12% to 19% in just two weeks. During those two weeks, I actually counted my calories, didn't eat anything bad, and my bench press went up.

I jsut declined bench pressed 315 lbs this morning for a all-time personal best in that form of bench press.

I just asked the professor because he was talking about the grades. Stated "One of you morons christmas treed the exam but couldn't even put fill out your PID correctly. This results in a negative one. Congratulations."

I have an answer to the original question:

It's Statistics right? And we all know that 75% of all statistics are made up on the spot

It's an advertising class, those are the stats for the test. Hence the ADV3008 course tag

But I thought it was: According to statistics, 92% of statistics are all made up, including this one.

FWIW, this type of graph is known as a histogram….one cardinal rule in constructing a histogram is maintain categorical exclusivity. In other words, don’t allow any overlap between groups. I assume the test scores are integers (whole numbers including zero) so there’s no need for decimals and the rule of thumb for picking the number of categories is to use the square root of “n” which in this case is 6.32 which we then round up to 7. Bottom line…the person who made this isn’t very good at math.

DirtyBird222 wrote: But I thought it was: According to statistics, 92% of statistics are all made up, including this one.

I heard it was 91.5742%

RX Reven' wrote: FWIW, this type of graph is known as a histogram….one cardinal rule in constructing a histogram is maintain categorical exclusivity. In other words, don’t allow any overlap between groups. I assume the test scores are integers (whole numbers including zero) so there’s no need for decimals and the rule of thumb for picking the number of categories is to use the square root of “n” which in this case is 6.32 which we then round up to 7. Bottom line…the person who made this isn’t very good at math.

There is a saying about people who are in the advertising business...."They hate math."

Strizzo wrote: also the ranges appear to be non-inclusive. at the bottom, there is a range for 35.9-40 containing 109 and then a range for 40 containing one.

That's what the parenthesis rather than a bracket at the top of the range means. A parenthesis is non-inclusive, while a bracket is inclusive. (The same is also true at the bottom of the range.)

berkeley. Everything I just wrote went away. Here we go again.

Two funny stories:

1.) In high school, I had a chemistry teacher who would add one extra credit point to your next exam if you showed up with your homework completed (didn't matter if it was right). He would, however, take off THREE points if you didn't have it. Can you see where this is going? During my senior year, a kid in my class set an all-time low score of -24 out of 100 by not doing the homework and never taking the test. It counted that way on his final course grade.

2.) When I was a freshman in college, I took a course called "Classical Music Listening". The exams were hard as berkeley because the prof. would play 5 seconds of a song (and usually, it was from a RANDOM POINT) and you had to fill in on a scantron sheet the title, date in which it was composed, who wrote it, and what genre it was. I had to miss a week of class (it was a Tuesday / Thursday class) for a funeral. I came back the next week to find that we had an exam and I, like an idiot, didn't study for it. I was freaking out: I didn't know ANYTHING! I just filled in answers A-B-C-D-E-D-C-B-A-B-C-D-E-D-C-B-A like that.

Well, he announced during the next class that the lowest grade was a 33% (this was a class of over 200). I thought: well, at least I know what I got. He would give the exams back the next class period. I GOT A 45%! Somebody berkeleyed up even more than ME and I didn't even try! I look back and laugh, but I was so stressed out that he stopped at my chair as he was walking around the auditorium to make sure I was OK.

billy3esq wrote:

Strizzo wrote: also the ranges appear to be non-inclusive. at the bottom, there is a range for 35.9-40 containing 109 and then a range for 40 containing one.

That's what the parenthesis rather than a bracket at the top of the range means. A parenthesis is non-inclusive, while a bracket is inclusive. (The same is also true at the bottom of the range.)

L-I-B, well maybe if you hat tutored dirtybird, he could have made a 40 out of 40, and we could have avoided this entire thread.

DirtyBird222 said: There is a saying about people who are in the advertising business...."They hate math."

Actually...we hate accounting...math is okay.

what class is Marketing 3008?

Grade 9 math..

My joke of a math teacher gave us a scantron test.

I studied, did my best and failed (math was never a strong suit)

The dumb cow next to me didn't care and marked "C" for every answer. She passed.

I complained to him about the fact that he (a math teacher?) had more than 50% of the answer on a multiple choice test as "C".

He didn't seem to understand the problem and gave me crap for looking at another student's paper.

Stupid douche.

Shawn

"Lies, damned lies, and statistics." Disraeli, popularized by Twain.

confuZion3 wrote: berkeley. Everything I just wrote went away. Here we go again. Two funny stories: 1.) In high school, I had a chemistry teacher who would add one extra credit point to your next exam if you showed up with your homework completed (didn't matter if it was right). He would, however, take off THREE points if you didn't have it. Can you see where this is going? During my senior year, a kid in my class set an all-time low score of -24 out of 100 by not doing the homework and never taking the test. It counted that way on his final course grade. 2.) When I was a freshman in college, I took a course called "Classical Music Listening". The exams were hard as berkeley because the prof. would play 5 seconds of a song (and usually, it was from a RANDOM POINT) and you had to fill in on a scantron sheet the title, date in which it was composed, who wrote it, and what genre it was. I had to miss a week of class (it was a Tuesday / Thursday class) for a funeral. I came back the next week to find that we had an exam and I, like an idiot, didn't study for it. I was freaking out: I didn't know ANYTHING! I just filled in answers A-B-C-D-E-D-C-B-A-B-C-D-E-D-C-B-A like that. Well, he announced during the next class that the lowest grade was a 33% (this was a class of over 200). I thought: well, at least I know what I got. He would give the exams back the next class period. I GOT A 45%! Somebody berkeleyed up even more than ME and I didn't even try! I look back and laugh, but I was so stressed out that he stopped at my chair as he was walking around the auditorium to make sure I was OK.

Everyone who has had any music appreciation class knows the answer is always ABACAB

maroon92 wrote:

DirtyBird222 said: There is a saying about people who are in the advertising business...."They hate math."

Actually...we hate accounting...math is okay. what class is Marketing 3008?

ADVERTISING 3008 ADVERTISING PRINCIPLES. Someone I managed to complete most of my advertising/pr courses without taking this prereq to all of the courses in the major. So now, right before I graduate I have to retake it. Pretty good refresher course though. I'm pretty sure it's math, that's why I went from the marketing major in the business school to the ad/pr major in the communications school....

I don't have a problem with accounting, it was E36 M3 like calc and quantum leap stuff that they required which made me say f'ck it.