Dr Wingnut

Day: March 10, 2005

  • By the numbers

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    59% Proportion of 10th-graders in 1990 who said they expected to graduate from a four-year college.80% Proportion of 10th-graders in 2002 who said they expected to graduate from a four-year college, attributed to increased encouragement from teachers.Time, 21 February 2005, Pg. 19That increase in the number of kids who think that they will graduate from…

  • A Million Monkeys

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    We’ve heard that a million monkeys at a million keyboards could produce the complete works of Shakespeare; now, thanks to the Internet, we know that is not true.Robert Wilensky, speech at a 1996 conference