Is the professorette being sluttish, or coy?

I. Extra credit for attending a marginally relevant lecture by a famous visitor? Sure! Except: those points will interact with the existing homework rules so baroquely that if you can figure out that you're in bad enough shape to benefit significantly from the freebies, then you actually deserve some academic remuneration after all.

II. We're back at that decision-making/risk/imperfect-information/(ir)rationality point again, in my "pssst! wanna fulfill some distribution requirements, punk?" course. After we discuss some medical examples, an overconfident student comes up. "Isn't it true for pregnancy tests that like, if it's negative, then that might or might not be true, but if it's positive, then you're in trouble?"

I involuntarily take a deep breath, stare into space for a moment, then answer, "Actually, I know way too much about that example." Even this student isn't so oafish as to ask another question as I furiously gather my notes.

Comments

[harvestbird]

As I read your post I came up with the notion that the classroom might be a little like an undersea membrane. When something breaks through it's never in the form that the occupants had quite anticipated.

[John Texas]

Seems to me that the professorette has a low threshold of sluttish, but I probably spend to much time in the company of respectable ladies of ill repute. With best regards, J.

[ainh]

I was teaching a basic probability class once and discussing the odds of having a disease if you tested positive based on the false positive rate and all of a sudden a girl raised her hand and blurted out "what about pregnancy tests?" I felt so bad for her actually. She was so anxious and upset that she couldn't even restrain herself from outing her situation to a whole class of peers--she could've asked after class. And what? Did she think I'd actually know? I'm a mathematician.

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