Professor makes his class IMPOSSIBLE to PASS... so I STAGED A REBELLION against the PROFESSOR
Am I the Jerk?
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🗓️ 16 April 2024
⏱️ 22 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | My entitled College Professor creates an environment in the classroom where it's nearly impossible for anybody to get a good grade. |
| 0:07.0 | And after dealing with this on the brink of getting my degree, as well as being so frustrated with what was going on, I decided to fight back and stage a rebellion, |
| 0:15.4 | discovering a fantastic loophole that would force this professor to change his rules. |
| 0:19.9 | And I've never felt better about making such a big change in my life. |
| 0:23.6 | Here's what happened. |
| 0:24.6 | So to start things out, I was a non-traditional student, |
| 0:27.6 | so I was a little bit older and a little more willing to question things. |
| 0:31.6 | I was taking a 3,000 level political science course so it was designed for political science majors and was required for my political science degree. |
| 0:40.0 | It was a fairly basic political science course, but the professor did some weird things. |
| 0:45.0 | Specifically, there was a quiz every class over the assigned reading, |
| 0:49.0 | and these quizzes made up a significant part of the grade. |
| 0:52.0 | But here's the tricky part. |
| 0:53.0 | He was clearly trying to do some sort of experiment |
| 0:56.0 | that was trying to teach us about game theory |
| 0:58.0 | or something like that. |
| 0:59.0 | And this is how he did it. |
| 1:00.0 | The correct answer for a quiz question |
| 1:02.0 | was the answer that was given by the most students in the class. |
| 1:06.0 | And this is whether it was based in fact or not. |
| 1:09.0 | Whatever the most students said was the answer was the correct answer. |
| 1:12.0 | For example, if the question was, what year was the correct answer. For example, if the question was, what year was the Constitution ratified? |
| 1:16.0 | Even though the factually correct answer would be 1789, |
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