Re:The Innumeracy of Educators, or Mark Twain Was Right
by blahedo on Thursday December 08, 2011 @03:23PM
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I thought the same thing, but it turns out the test is not all multiple choice---in the 2006 exam, 28 out of 58 problems were open answer, and the rest were 4-option multiple choice. So the expected value of a totally random selection would be 7.5 questions out of 58---meaning this guy was at least not doing worse than chance.
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Re:The Innumeracy of Educators, or Mark Twain Was Right
by transphenomenal on Friday December 09, 2011 @02:20AM
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Getting 10 questions right may not be statistically more significant than just answering randomly. I would calculate this myself, but I'm going to bed, however, just eyeballing it makes me think this is quite possible.