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Expecting better grades than you get

Tuesday, September 23rd, 2008

I just gave back the first exam in my 200-seat intro class. 194 exams, median score 65 out of 100, with the median score almost exactly on the B-/C+ line. Which is all pretty normal for this class.
But since I have the “iClicker” for class polls, I asked the class on the day [...]

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How to do philosophy

Wednesday, September 17th, 2008

A quick classic from Saint Gasoline:

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What you don’t see

Friday, March 21st, 2008

Just a nice little bit on attention and what we don’t notice.

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A first post?

Wednesday, May 23rd, 2007

This is the random news/blog posts area of the new version of my ProfRon.net site. Just putting things together now; should have it all running fine by June 1st. More to come.
All the posts below were just imported from my now-defunct and never-quite-functional blog Ephemeral Musings.

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