<p>“…the canyon has been named suicide canyon since I attended a nearby college in 1978”</p>
<p>I have never in my life heard that name, until your post just now. And I was there on campus at that very time. I fear that was an innovation of your nearby college.</p>
<p>“the concept of reverse curves” never hear that either, but the intro science courses were curved for sure</p>
<p>“intentionally putting in ringer questions”
Actually I did feel that way too, about intro bio, back in the day when I took it there.
Recently I took it again, elsewhere, to scrape off the cobwebs, and this new place also uses “finely honed” questions that some may feel are of that ilk. But I did great now.
In retrospect, I think maybe I just wasn’t up to it at the time, and was maybe less well prepared than I thought I was. After all, some people had sufficient knowledge and brains to answer those so-called “ringer questions” correctly, I just didn’t happen to be among them. The ones who got them right can be happy that their superior comprehension of the subject was rewarded there. The others like me were left to huff and puff about 'ringer questions", aka sour grapes.</p>