Thought provoked

Ask yourself whether you are happy and you cease to be so. :)

- John Stuart Mill

The answer is not always C :)

from this article http://www.rayfowler.org/2007/06/14/the-answer-is-not-always-c/

I found this story about a college student who got a zero on a 100 question
True/False Communications Final(without neg marking) amusing. His professor
sent him the following email the next day:
Dear Michael,
Every year I
attempt to boost my students’ final grades by giving them this relatively simple
exam consisting of 100 True/False questions from only 3 chapters of material.
For the past 20 years that I have taught Intro Communications 101 at this
institution I have never once seen someone score below a 65 on this exam.
Consequently, your score of a zero is the first in history and ultimately
brought the entire class average down a whole 8 points.
There were two
possible answer choices: A (True) and B (False). You chose C for all 100
questions in an obvious attempt to get lucky with a least a quarter of the
answers. It’s as if you didn’t look at a single question. Unfortunately, this
brings your final grade in this class to failing. See you next year!
May God
have mercy on your soul.
Sincerely,Professor William Turner
P.S. If all
else fails, go with B from now on. B is the new C.
So, have you ever just
filled in the answers at random on a multiple choice test?
Update: Here is a
picture of the student’s actual test. Notice the T and F

printed prominently over the A and B columns.