I feel that I should add (and should have stated before! mea culpa) that, as my student reported, "this fragment was literally lifted out of context and that no inferences can fairly be drawn about the writers of the original messages...."
Beth Benoit University System of New Hampshire on 2/18/04 9:47 PM, Karl L. Wuensch at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Clearly the school psychologists in Memphis are equalitarians, since the > only way to be sure that every child is at or above the 50th percentile on > reading performance is to have every child score exactly the same on the > test of reading performance. Of course, this means that the true enemy of > these school psychologists is not the normal curve but rather variance. > > Karl W. > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Beth Benoit" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Teaching in the Psychological Sciences" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Wednesday, February 18, 2004 6:32 PM > Subject: stastical anomalies > > > One of my students forwarded this to me: > >> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> << Here in Memphis, some teachers/principals have been quoted as saying > that >> they want every child at or above the 50th percentile for reading. << >> >> I'm hearing from others that they're being told that the normal curve is > our >> enemy and if they believe in the normal curve they don't care about >> children. > > Beth Benoit > University System of New Hampshire > > > --- > You are currently subscribed to tips as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > --- > You are currently subscribed to tips as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
