Re: what good is "percentage error"?

["Michael N. Monce" <mnmon@conncoll.edu>]

On Tue, 13 May 1997, Roger A. Pruitt wrote:

> Mike, you are being too hard on Frank. Don't kill the messenger. Take your
> anger out on all of the chemistry departments around the world that grade
> this way. Also, what are we to do about chemistry students in our classes
> who want to "weigh" in mass units? It is an imperfect world we live in. We
> do the best we can, and spend alot of time correcting misconceptions placed
> in our students by others.
>
> Roger


	I guess I'm guilty of thinking that e-mail can substitute for
face-to-face interchange.  I'm not angry, and I apologize to Frank if I
seemed harsh.  I believe I was responding to "all the chemistry depts",
and not personally.  We, physicists and chemists, need to talk about our
different goals in lab experience.

				Mike Monce
				Connecticut College