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#1 Re: Quote of the Day

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Indeed. :-)

I remember having an argument with someone about attainment levels in Education. They completely refused to accept my throwaway assertion that 50% of pupils were below average.

Their argument wasn't even sophisticated enough to prove me wrong based on the pupils who were precisely ON average.
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For good or for ill, air mastery is today the supreme expression of military power and fleets and armies, however vital and important, must accept a subordinate rank. - Winston Churchill. ( even today the 'senior' services still have a problem with this :D )
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davidBAM wrote: Thu Dec 20, 2018 10:58 amI remember having an argument with someone about attainment levels in Education. They completely refused to accept my throwaway assertion that 50% of pupils were below average.
By definition you are right -and the opposite is true also : 50% of pupils will be above average.
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Dirk Broer wrote: Sun Dec 30, 2018 9:31 am By definition you are right -and the opposite is true also : 50% of pupils will be above average.
Precisely :D

I think the individual concerned was probably confusing an average with an exam pass-mark :roll:
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What have you done to the cat, Erwin? It looks half-dead --- Mrs Schrödinger
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Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured -- Mark Twain
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There are 10 types of people in the world; those who understand binary, and those who don’t

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“We sleep safely at night because rough men stand ready to visit violence on those who would harm us.”

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