I handed back students’ first exams this afternoon in Intro to American Government. It was bad: μ = 66, σ = 18, n = 24. I spent almost an hour talking about the exam and (figuratively) trying to talk a few students off ledges.
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Monday, 4 October 2004
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3 comments:
I had to look at the page source to figure out what those little squiggles were supposed to be. μ doesn’t look anything like a mu in Firefox on Linux, and σ doesn’t look anything like a sigma.
Strange, looks fine here. You got
ttf-opensymbolinstalled? (I’m a bit of a font snob so I’ve got all sorts of fonts installed on the laptop…)Unfortunately, “Unicode Character Map” under Gnome 2.6 and 2.8 has this irritating habit of pretending every font has complete Unicode coverage for every character that can be rendered using some font on your system; that’s one of the few things that Microsoft actually got right in their character map applet.
They look fine here (Firefox 1.0 PR, Win2K, but I should confess that I do have a buttload of fonts installed from Word and MS Publisher, so that might make a difference…) I may have to visit here from home tonight and see how it renders under Firefox in Linux…