Re: The naive test for equality
From: mAsterdam <mAsterdam_at_vrijdag.org>
Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2005 01:17:25 +0200
Message-ID: <4301226f$0$11063$e4fe514c_at_news.xs4all.nl>
>
> In the USA, the first course in a given subject seems to be 'Subject
> 101'; subsequent courses in the same subject get larger numbers (102,
> 201, dunno what the sequence normally is, and it likely varies between
> institutions anyway). I'm not clear whether this applies in regular
> schools (K-12 - meaning kindergarten to grade 12, or ages 5-18) or
> whether it really only applies to university courses. (And, just to add
> to the confusion, when they ask you where you went to school, Americans
> most often mean where did you go to university. Isn't it fun sharing a
> common language!)
>
> So 'Modelling 101' is a basic course in 'Modelling'.
Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2005 01:17:25 +0200
Message-ID: <4301226f$0$11063$e4fe514c_at_news.xs4all.nl>
Jonathan Leffler wrote:
> mAsterdam wrote:
>> VC wrote: >> >>> It's, like, introduction to modelling 101. >> >> What is 101?
>
> In the USA, the first course in a given subject seems to be 'Subject
> 101'; subsequent courses in the same subject get larger numbers (102,
> 201, dunno what the sequence normally is, and it likely varies between
> institutions anyway). I'm not clear whether this applies in regular
> schools (K-12 - meaning kindergarten to grade 12, or ages 5-18) or
> whether it really only applies to university courses. (And, just to add
> to the confusion, when they ask you where you went to school, Americans
> most often mean where did you go to university. Isn't it fun sharing a
> common language!)
>
> So 'Modelling 101' is a basic course in 'Modelling'.
Thank you :-)
The modellers I was talking about were real people, well educated (most of them qualified to teach way beyond modelling 101) and well behaved. Received on Tue Aug 16 2005 - 01:17:25 CEST