Re: The price of oil

BeH <[email protected]> wrote in news:[email protected]:

> On 04.10.2022 13.41, Merlyne wrote:
>> BeH <[email protected]> wrote in news:[email protected]:
>> 
>>> On 03.10.2022 14.04, Merlyne wrote:
>>>> BeH <[email protected]> wrote in news:[email protected]:
>>>>
>>>>> On 02.10.2022 13.12, Merlyne wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>>> when I was at uni, I got a job one summer working with a
>>>>>>>> psychology lab. I was basically a guinea pig for the summer. It
>>>>>>>> paid really well. I got to work with a hypnotist which adult me
>>>>>>>> is now nervous about. One of the experiments they also did was
>>>>>>>> to assess how alcohol impairs one's brain. I had to take a
>>>>>>>> standard IQ test and then have a drink and then take another IQ
>>>>>>>> test etc. My scores kept getting better up to and including the
>>>>>>>> 3rd drink but after that, it was chaos.I'm not a psychologist,
>>>>>>>> but I can see that drunk people wouldn't give a shit about
>>>>>>>> taking a stupid test.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> ...or not being able to read the instructions. The getting
>>>>>>> better with each test is a thing, though. Being familiar with
>>>>>>> the type of problem the tests contains helps significantly.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> At work, I have to go through second language assessment every 5
>>>>>> years to supervise since I'm not fully bilingual. The reading and
>>>>>> writing tests are multiple guess exams. When in doubt, pick B.
>>>>>> They have these workshops to prepare for the exams which is
>>>>>> basically doing practice tests all day. Eventually patterns
>>>>>> appear. 
>>>>>
>>>>> Patterns of the language I hope - not just patterns of when to
>>>>> pick B. Or you could - and this is only a suggestion - learn
>>>>> french and subject yourself to it from time to time.
>>>>>
>>>> I have been subjected to it my whole life.  They even teach it in
>>>> school. I have been on language training about a gazillion times.
>>>> Some people just have trouble learning languages. I am one of those
>>>> people.
>>>
>>> Quelle malheur ma chère...
>> 
>> Google translate?
> 
> Noeh, but I did check the spelling of malheur...
>> 
>> J'ai réussi à les examens requise pour superviser.
>> 
>> (I see I need to find out how to set my newreader to UTF-8)
>> (And no, I didn't use an app to translate that)
> 
> Of course not - you're canadian.
> 
>>> Well I flunked french in "high school". If not for that I might have
>>> become a lawyer...
>>>
>> 
>> Well, it appears that you do like to argue..
> 
> Only when someone else is wrong.
> 
>> I guess everything does stay on your permanent record.
> 
> That's what permanent means, innit.

*inobvious eye roll*

I meant that level of granularity.

> No, it meant that my grade average (from 0-13 ATT) was 0,1 to low to
> get accepted at Copenhagen Uni. that year.
> 
I am unfamiliar with your school system and grading system.
At our high school, we got measured in percentages.
I should go find my old report cards. My Mom gave them to me when I got 
a place of my own. A bunch had comments like "she should try harder". I 
already had an A. No wonder people thinks most teachers wouldn't 
register a blip on a catscan...