Is this an unreasonable professor

monydad
Fri, 24 Sep 2010 15:12:25 +0000

"His goal with this speech is to get students that have no self confidence to leave the class so that he is only left with the best and the brightest. "

See this is what I meant when I made an oblique reference to Type I & Type II error.

On the one hand, it could be exactly what you say, and the class could be great.
On the other hand, he could mean exactly what he said, and you could wind up with a bad grade from an ******e simply because he wants to operate that way. Or have to do more work than you would prefer to expend in this subject to avoid such fate.

You don’t know which of these is actually the case, but which risk would you rather take? The risk that you may miss out on a great class? Or the risk that you wind up treated harshly by an ogre, as promised, or have to commit rather more time that you would prefer to this class?

I’m not dictating an answer for everyone, just laying it out.
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