Amazing displays of ignoranceSandettie Light Vessel Automatic tells us: "My dad's friend told us there's no such thing as gravity - it's just the weight of air holding us down". Tell us of times you've been floored by abject stupidity. "Whenever I read the Daily Express" is not a valid answer.
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Scaryduck LIKES EGG, Thu 18 Mar 2010, 16:48)
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One of the country's best universities.I was sitting in on a lecture not so long ago, and the lecturer was guiding the students through a particular procedure. I can't remember exactly what the preamble was, but the end point was something like this:
LECTURER: Right, and so all we have to do is to divide A by B. In this case, A and B happen both to be?
STUDENT: One million.
LECTURER: Right. So the answer is?
STUDENT: ..... pause ..... Sorry. I'm not very good at maths.
Yep. My employer aspires to be one of the top 3 universities in the country, and one of the top 20 in the world, by 2015.
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Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Fri 19 Mar 2010, 12:28,
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I did something similar at uni.The teacher was prompting me to give the answer 'multiply by 5'. Instead my braincogs spun for a while and I said 'multiply by 100 and divide by 20'. Technically correct, but wtf?
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Bob Todd whee, Fri 19 Mar 2010, 12:35,
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Oh yeah1st year physics students at one of the top 3 UK science insitutions.
"So divide this by 100 and we get..."
"?"
"let's try dividing by 10 then..."
"??"
"Divide by 1?"
"*drools*"
I despair. Mind you, I just discovered that it's my job next year to teach the first year general physics and maths for physics degree course... Standards will plummet.
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