Pzhon's Post about Math and Nerds

[Zeno]

[ QUOTE ]
I'm afraid to ask where I am.

[/ QUOTE ]

My Friend, some quotes from Meditations by Marcus Aurelius seem appropriate:


"I often marvel how it is that though each man loves himself beyond all else, he should yet value his own opinion of himself less than that of others."

"Do not copy the opinions of the arrogant, or let them dictate your own, but look at things in their true light."

"Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present."

-Zeno

[Mason Malmuth]

Hi Victor:

After the Civil War the South was devastated economically. Southern Veterans who survived the war but who now went West seeking a better life brought the game with them. So it was still a Southern game.

best wishes,
Mason

[fnord_too]

Damn you!!!! Anogher friggin book on my to read list, just what I f'in need.

[CallMeIshmael]

[ QUOTE ]
Hi David:

[/ QUOTE ]

Am I the only who got a chuckle out of this?

[andyfox]

All of Mason's posts begin "Hi _________." And end with "Best Wishes, Mason."

[erby]

[quote
"Probably not, because getting an 800 on the Verbal is so much rarer than getting an 800 on the Math."

[/ QUOTE ]

The SATs are scored on a bell curve. While I had to answer every math question right to get an 800 on my test, my roommate got an 800 by missing 3 on his test. Another roommate of mine got a 780 by missing 1. Every test is different, and some may be harder than others. To counter this, they score on a curve. While it may be "harder" to get an 800 in verbal (because the average nuber of correct answers is higher), it certainly isn't "rarer".

ERBY [img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img]

[David Sklansky]

Unless they changed things, the curves are different. 780 is, or was, a higher percentile in verbal than math. Don't ask me why.

[erby]

oh really...that's so bizarre...you would think then people who are better at math would argue, so that their score meant more

[CallMeIshmael]

[ QUOTE ]
All of Mason's posts begin "Hi _________." And end with "Best Wishes, Mason."

[/ QUOTE ]

Yeah, I know. I just found it odd for him to say it to someone he works with in real life.

[Duke]

[ QUOTE ]
reading a little history didn't past me by.

[/ QUOTE ]

Oh wow, I don't think I ever saw you make a pun. That's so bad it's good.

~D