On 13 Sep 2000 05:23:07 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alan
Zaslavsky) wrote:
> The following article may be of interest to some of you who are trying to
> get across the notion of reliability, particularly those who are teaching
> H.S. or young college students who have recently gone through high-stakes
> achievement/competency testing programs. You can also download directly
> from the New York Times web site at
>
> http://www.nytimes.com/2000/09/13/national/13LESS.html
>
< snip, rest >
- Should we count the challenge this leads to
as a minor IQ test?
If you are not "registered" with NY Times, then it asks you for name,
password ... and an option allows you to save them (in a cookie, I
presume) so you won't get asked the next time.
If you skip down to the bottom and click "done", then
you have endorsed 3 or 4 pre-checked boxes which authorize/request
that folks send you e-mail. Or sell your name.
- Did you want that ?-
I have said before, I don't get much Spam as a result of posting to
stat-groups. I may be protected by having an ".edu" name, and I may
be protected by filters that the University uses -- but I also watch
out so that I don't *request* more mail. And I don't give my logname
very often, anyway, though I did, this time.
--
Rich Ulrich, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.pitt.edu/~wpilib/index.html
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