A norm of truth-telling is a condition of possibility for lying being effective, good job nerds
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@St_Rev my sister's taking stats for serious nursing, I managed to troll her & my husband at once by forwarding her questions to him -
@sarahdoingthing I don't understand. Just because the questions are so awful? -
@St_Rev yeah with typos and errors, and then husband's answers are several levels of abstraction too high, it's great -
@St_Rev (typos and errors in the text, not my sister's) -
@sarahdoingthing God, I used to get so angry at the textbooks I had to teach from. -
@St_Rev@sarahdoingthing Think I had one good textbook in college. (Russell and Norvig's AI)
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@puellavulnerata@St_Rev@sarahdoingthing I once had to tell a class of CS 102 students that while I couldn't give them *credit* for … -
@puellavulnerata@St_Rev@sarahdoingthing … answering a test question that required serialising Swing objects with "the API forbids this," … -
@puellavulnerata@St_Rev@sarahdoingthing … they would certainly not be *docked* for pointing it out -
@maradydd@puellavulnerata@sarahdoingthing I gave small bonuses to any student who caught a mistake, in class or on tests. -
@maradydd@puellavulnerata@sarahdoingthing Just stopped making a game of *expecting* students to catch my errors. Partly bc they hate it... -
@maradydd@puellavulnerata@sarahdoingthing ...partly bc it becomes an excuse to half-ass the details in lecture prep. -
@maradydd@puellavulnerata@sarahdoingthing That kind of thing flies--MAYBE--in an upper-level class w/specific kind of teaching style.
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