Comments on: the school course paradox

By: Jaxynde

Jaxynde — Wed, 29 Sep 2010 02:42:10 +0000

whats a transcript?

By: Thalia

Thalia — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 15:16:03 +0000

You’re obviously going to the wrong school.

By: Thalia

Thalia — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 15:14:50 +0000

And it’s hard. (For them, anyway.)

By: nyaneko

nyaneko — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 14:14:30 +0000

then go away

By: Nash

Nash — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 13:24:15 +0000

I made a graph of it but moderation ate my comment.

By: Lol

Lol — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 22:38:20 +0000

Exactly my comment.

By: mld

mld — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 20:20:12 +0000

not necessarily. It depends on how you define easy. For me, most psychology classes are “easy” simply because (for me) I get the material far more easily, and have an intuitive grasp of it, than say, pre-calc (which others may find easy). I find the term easy to be subjective.

By: mld

mld — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 20:18:25 +0000

ugh, ain’t that the damned truth…

By: Terminal

Terminal — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 14:40:36 +0000

Thank you Philip. That is exactly what I came here to say.

By: Philip

Philip — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 08:58:33 +0000

The “three good characteristics, where the combination of two is simply the lack of the other, and the combination of three is impossible” – graph is kinda overdone.
Find something else, this is getting boring.

Also, they don’t make sense: the part of the graph which is only “easy” isn’t interesting or looks good on transcript. Therefore, the “looks terrible on transcript” and “boring” parts aren’t limited to the combination of “easy” and “interesting” or “easy” and “looks good on transcript” respectively.

Graphing fail.

By: Mirkwood

Mirkwood — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 23:11:39 +0000

God Almighty, ain’t that the truth.

By: jl5691426

jl5691426 — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 22:55:59 +0000

Indeed – I guess the class in which one learns a vocabulary didn’t satisfiy any of the graph author’s criteria for desirability.

By: Nebton

Nebton — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 22:53:09 +0000

They would, but it’s boring, and would look bad on their transcript.

By: Professor Paradox

Professor Paradox — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 22:48:53 +0000

May I suggest that all these people who make the “paradox” graphs register for “WTF-100: The Definition of the Word Paradox” next semester.

By: Onion

Onion — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 21:12:54 +0000

Look up the word “paradox” will you.

By: Stephanie

Stephanie — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 20:25:52 +0000

Aren’t classes suppose to be challenging? I would think that if the course is that easy, you need to be taking more difficult classes (or, if it’s a basic requirement, push through it until you get to the good stuff). Easy classes are nearly, by definition, boring because it’s that easy chances are you already have that knowledge. It’s little fun, learning about what you already know.

By: Morgris

Morgris — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 19:21:11 +0000

Possibly because easy classes simply don’t look good on a transcript, it’s like saying that a gun looks good to pacifists. Getting kinda sick of these bad paradox graphs.

By: d4m4s74

d4m4s74 — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 19:18:47 +0000

When I’m first I still react to the graph.
so: I’m in two classes with all of the above, 1 interesting and easy, and at least one with None of the above. BTW. second.

By: Jennifer

Jennifer — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 19:18:21 +0000

You nailed it right on the head.

By: Bwahaha

Bwahaha — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 19:08:19 +0000

FIRST!