16/ An alternate version: 'the kid's answer was more PRECISE'. Yes. And? Precision in excess of constraints is actually an error. If I give you a thermometer and tell you that it's accurate to +/- 2 degrees, then ask for the average of three readings, 91.0912854 is WRONG
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27/ I challenged several folks who said "it doesn't say estimate" to tell me what the instructions at the top of the page were. All responded "I can't see the top, so I'm going on what I can see". This ... ah... Look, if you're saying the teacher is an idiot, then >
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28/ You're implicitly arguing "there is NO context in which the teacher's mark down is valid". In which case, saying "I can't see the context" is not a defense of your position. In that case you have to somehow enumerate every single possible context and disprove them all.
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29/ Several people called me dumb or derp. Which is ... surprising. If my argument has a flaw, point to the flaw in the argument. If you can't see a flaw, ad hominems do not seem useful.
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30/ Anyway,
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31/ damnit, @kaijubushi , yes, that's the one that I added and then deleted, then added, then deleted https://twitter.com/kaijubushi/status/1128996584048529409 …
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32/ OF COURSE I'M TOO INVESTED ! https://twitter.com/NonPlayerCaoCao/status/1128996169793908737 …
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