how did he get 98% on the exam?

[Prothero]

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I know. I wish you would lead me step by step through your thinking process so I could quickly concede and we’d be done with it =). Please do so if you have the time.

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<p>I’ll take you step by step, but you can’t use ad-hominem or straw man attacks like you’ve been doing, nor can you start using empty arguments and rhetoric like lonesin and silence_kit have been. Drop all your wrongly made assumptions about the world and look at it objectively.</p>

<p>What would be needed in order to say all high GPA students are intelligent? Make your answer short and concise and we will proceed from there.</p>

[justtotalk]

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but you can’t use ad-hominem

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<p>I never invalidated you. I only invalidated your Einstein example. </p>

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nor can you start using empty arguments and rhetoric like lonesin and silence_kit

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<p>Ironic. </p>

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What would be needed in order to say all high GPA students are intelligent

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<p>Find an objective measure of intelligence. Gather all high GPA students. Measure their intelligence. See if all high GPA students are intelligent.</p>

[silence_kit]

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nor can you start using empty arguments and rhetoric like lonesin and silence_kit have been.

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<p>i’m not trying to mislead you. I’m only in the discussion to correct the common misconception that einstein was a poor student.</p>

<p>when justtotalk provided the article, you called it an ‘alternate story’ and refused to talk about the subject further. i also asked you about how you knew that einstein was the ONLY post-grad to not get a teaching job, or that not getting a teaching job right out of graduate school was failing as an academic in those times (it isn’t failing nowadays), but you ignored the question. </p>

<p>come on. i’m not the one here impeding honest discussion.</p>

[Lonesin]

<p>Prothero. If you would just answer my questions I could show you why you are wrong. If you’re willing to do so, my question about responsibility is still the starting point. It is at the end of my last post. However I suspect you won’t read this as you’ve so maturely stated.</p>

[somethinggreek]

<p>My question is why should a professor curve an exam if everyone studied and i mean studied like your suppose to do everyone would get good grades.</p>

[Stratusfaction]

<p>^Not necessarily. Sometimes the material doesn’t click and some have a longer time understanding material than others.</p>

[fabrizio]

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Memorizing is a fool’s errand. I once met an engineering grad student who never memorized Quotient Rule, the pythagorean theorem, the quadratic equation, or the equations for volume of a sphere, cylinder, cube, or rhombus. He simply learned the Concepts, which he was able to apply in order to earn Top Grades.

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<p>If true, that guy must be a genius, in which case, I would hesitate to hold him as an example to others. For me, it is much easier to memorize that for a right triangle, the sum of squares of the two sides equals the square of the hypotenuse than to derive a proof for the theorem on the spot every time I need to use it.</p>