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I am taking community college classes in statistics and I had a quiz last week. Counts for 20 points. I got the results today and I lost 6 points.

I check and realize that I was wrong because of a .1% error..yes a .1% error in my answer to two problems.

In one problem worth 3 points I wrote down 99.8% when the answer was 99.7 percent...lost all point for that and I was using the table in the book

Then on another problem I wrote down 777 as the answer when it was really get this...776.22

Such BS

And I was using the normal distribution tables in the book. And i set the calculator to 3 decimals of accuracy as instructed.

ON the z-value table I had to choose between .1985 or .2014 (for an integral of aprox of .20) and I went with the later which gave me the 777 answer. lame

And no I'm not going to bring it up with her because I will get the same answer I have always gotten since I was in 5th grade with regards to teachers-They are are right I am wrong..blah blah blah

Sorry for wasting your time if you read this
 


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Don't knock community colleges. When you look at the tuition price compared to anything else, sometimes you wonder who really wins.

Going to a community college for undergrad sounds smarter in my opinion. It's cheaper, you usually get much better grades, less homework. Get a high GPA graduate then blow all your money on a nice ivy league grad school if you want.

better than being 10-20k in debt by the end of undergrad in my opinion.
 
perhaps even smarter, 2 kids i know each took 2 years of community colleges and then transferred to kick ass undergrads... aka harvard, princeton... pretty sick and they saved a butt load of money. their diploma just reads "harvard" and "princeton"... so laugh all you want, but i'm pretty sure those guys are laughing at you cablemonkey

and while pointing a finger and calling someone an asshat is all in good fun, laughing at their strides in education just seems pretty shitty. I just think it's a crappy thing to judge.
 
How the fuck can you knock anyone trying to get an education, you see not everyone is as fortunate as you, not every one can afford an upper class education, you people are fucked up! You see some people have to actually pay for their education and dont have mommy and daddy footing the bill for them.
 
jerxs said:
How the fuck can you knock anyone trying to get an education, you see not everyone is as fortunate as you, not every one can afford an upper class education, you people are fucked up! You see some people have to actually pay for their education and dont have mommy and daddy footing the bill for them.
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Truth. I'm paying for college out of my own pocket. It's unreasonable and plain silly to pay the kind of prices the "name brand schools" demand.
In my opinion, where you go to graduate school is way more important than undergrad, so what's wrong with saving your money?
 
Thats great man, there are shit loads of hard working Americans out there that have to do what you are doing to get an education. Hope you make it!
 
trigatch4 said:
perhaps even smarter, 2 kids i know each took 2 years of community colleges and then transferred to kick ass undergrads... aka harvard, princeton... pretty sick and they saved a butt load of money. their diploma just reads "harvard" and "princeton"... so laugh all you want, but i'm pretty sure those guys are laughing at you cablemonkey

and while pointing a finger and calling someone an asshat is all in good fun, laughing at their strides in education just seems pretty shitty. I just think it's a crappy thing to judge.
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I did something similar, and I would say the teachers at a community college are better, in my experience than univeristiy professors. Professors at universities often have other obligations and focus than just teaching students. Community College teachers are primarily focused on teaching the students. I know I learned more in some of those classes than I did in most of the university classes I took.
 
It depends what your going for. the construction classes I took at community college rocked because the teachers actually work in the industry during the day. If your going for accounting or something then I can see wasting your money.
 
let me know when goldman sachs, morgan stanley, bain, mckinsey, bcg, etc. etc. come recruiting at community college and I'm all for it. until then, the best jobs are at elite univ's. also, if you can't afford the best schools, they give you... FINANCIAL AID... you take a good job after that and even if you owe some $, you can easily pay it back with the type of jobs you get.
 
Not getting into the discussion of community vs. brand-name...

but..

Yes, I would recommend bringing it up.
Cool down a little first, though. THAT anger won't get you far.

So

- cool down
- ask her for an apointment, as she will have time for you (Don't do shit like this between classes)
- sit down at home and recalculate the answers, write down some notes about your argumentation
- talk it over

I've been though university myself and I know it can be a bitch like that. Don't be too disappointed if she takes the "I am right and you are wrong" approach. Take the high road. Be exceptionally polite and friéndly at all costs.

Oh... and just to rub it in: 776.2 is NOT 777 ... as it would be rounded to 776... oh well, can't have everything right.

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community college is great. I go to santa barbara city college which is like one of the best but the reason is its saving me money right now and they have a garenteed transfer program to UCSB which is my main gaol.
 
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