On 6-2-2010 21:45, andrel wrote:

> One other thing I am rather proud of is asking before a test who was 
> left and who was right handed and handed out papers accordingly. Can 
> anyone guess what the difference was?

It seems that we don't have other suggestions. Possibly too deep into a 
discussion that nobody wants to read anymore. ;)

The simple answer is that the students had to fill in a truthtable 
referring to a figure that was printed next to it. If that figure is on 
the left of the table left handed people would hold there hand in front 
of it while filling it in, and mutatis mutandis* for right handed 
people. So I made two versions where the order of the figure and table 
was switched. Actually it is so logical to do so that it surprised me a 
little that nobody seems to do this. The students never had seen it, not 
my colleagues nor the group that coordinated all the tests for the 
university.


*) Latin for 'change what has to be changed' a common expression in the 
Netherlands but possibly not all over the globe**

**) once a rewiewer of a paper flamed us for using this expression. We 
hadn't realised that this expression might not be common elsewhere. So 
he had a point. He said that we should not use latin and used 
expressions like 'deliberate obfuscate' and at least either 'e.g.' or 
'i.e.' so that was quite funny.

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