Re: grade inflation, etc.

[Jack Uretsky <jlu@HEP.ANL.GOV>]

see below:

Adam was by constitution and proclivity a scientist; I was the same, and
we loved to call ourselves by that great name...Our first memorable
scientific discovery was the law that water and like fluids run downhill,
not up.
                          Mark Twain, <Extract from Eve's Autobiography>

On Wed, 5 Jan 2000, Digby Willard wrote:

> > > Obviously I need to recheck what I remember of Darwin.  Meantime, would
> > > you
> > > provide other examples of my hyperbole?
> >     One counter-example is worth 1 trillion examples (and then some)
>
> In other words, you don't have any more examples?
>
> Your statement regarding example may apply to physical theories (maybe not;
> one bad data point doesn't invalidate the curve), but it doesn't apply to
> historical generalizations.
     But it also applies to the credibility of your contention.
     You didn't do your homework on Darwin, that is enough to cast
doubt on the remainder.  It was your contention; I am not going to
do your homework for you.
                                   Regards,
                                        Jack