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Obviously I need to recheck what I remember of Darwin. Meantime, wouldOne counter-example is worth 1 trillion examples (and then some)
you
provide other examples of my hyperbole?
So if one makes advanced discoveries in natural law, but communicates themCan you justify your statement that "physics is a form of
communication?"
Certainly most of us find that it involves communication, but that's a
long
way from being a form of communication.
Physics is how we communicate our experience of nature.
Wrong question. Can I reliably assign a grade that predicts
a student's future performance in an engineering environment
or in an advanced academic setting? Yes. People have been
doing it for generations.
Suppose I have two students who work together in a lab. One studentSince I have no idea of what your labs are, or how you determine
understands the purpose of the lab better, figures out what equipment
to
use and how to set up the lab in order to give good results, analyzes
the
first set of data, and on the basis of the results proposes a second
experiment to investigate a trend in the data. The other student
contributes to the lab, but clearly doesn't have the understanding of
the
physics that the first student does. The first student doesn't turn in
a
lab report; the second one does. Which one has better ability to
"perform
physics?"
how well a student "understands the purpose of the lab", the
question is unanswerable.
I do know that AP exam grades are
effective identifiers of outstanding students, which is why
I try to validate my own judgment by giving old AP exams as
finals.