Freakonomics<\/a><\/i>. Definitely a fun read and there’s absolutely nothing about economics in there, which is the fun part. Okay, well, to be honest I would know nothing about anything in there that’s even kind of linked to economics. They say ignorance is bliss. :biggrin:<\/p>\nThat saying, of course, is completely invalid when it comes to midterms. I got my inorganic chem midterm back this morning, and well… let’s just say I haven’t seen this much scaling since first-year physics. No, I take that back. I haven’t seen this much scaling since Math HL. My mark went up by nearly thirty percent. (To let you have an idea of how bad it was, the raw average was a whopping 42%<\/b>. Go us.) It was so bad they had to scale us twice<\/i> – first by making the midterm out of eight fewer marks, and then when that still<\/i> wasn’t enough, by boosting everyone’s scores by another ten percent. And this got the class average up to about 60.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I take back many of the bad things I said about economics. It seems it has its uses after all. I spent an hour or two on the weekend reading Freakonomics. Definitely a fun read and there’s absolutely nothing about economics in there, which is the fun part. Okay, well, to be honest I would […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quotidian"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/undreamt.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/undreamt.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/undreamt.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/undreamt.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/undreamt.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=438"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/undreamt.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/undreamt.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/undreamt.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/undreamt.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}