tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2514352312859447561.post8572054698944638529..comments2024-01-30T03:30:45.740-05:00Comments on Bad Data, Bad!: Five reasons to check the footnotesbs kinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02871717971078952304noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2514352312859447561.post-70317280670877212582013-01-27T08:06:40.579-05:002013-01-27T08:06:40.579-05:00That's a good engineering prof right there btw...That's a good engineering prof right there btw, academic dishonesty? Meh. Inefficiency? What the heck is wrong with you?????bs kinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02871717971078952304noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2514352312859447561.post-73298985777134983292013-01-27T08:03:10.275-05:002013-01-27T08:03:10.275-05:00My advisor in college had a puzzling story he used...My advisor in college had a puzzling story he used to tell about a student who forged all of his test booklets to give himself different grades (mostly in verses of his actual grades). He had figured out how to mimic the blue book, the profs writing and style, how to get the exact number of extra points he needed etc. he had apparently done this for quite a few classes too. The one thing that bugged my prof at the end of it all? Why wouldn't that kid just have invested the same amount of time in to studying? He could have just passed the first time around!bs kinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02871717971078952304noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2514352312859447561.post-11169023802229323712013-01-25T05:37:09.963-05:002013-01-25T05:37:09.963-05:00One of the things about writing court briefs or ap...One of the things about writing court briefs or appellate briefs is that you have to list the case you are relying on together with the legal compilation it is listed in. The down side is that what is a good source in NH may not be a good source in MA, i.e. the prior legal interpretations may differ. We go outside of our jurisdiction if we think it is new legal ground. When I first started practicing, it was a lot of work, but now with the internet, it is very easy to check a case and see what it says. It doesn't stop lawyers from skating on the edge of saying it means something that it doesn't, but it is easy to verify.Michaelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05680174513083261237noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2514352312859447561.post-40099369046633198912013-01-24T21:12:09.044-05:002013-01-24T21:12:09.044-05:00I used to make up footnotes in college. It's ...I used to make up footnotes in college. It's pretty easy, actually. I eventually decided whole cloth was too risky #1; #5 would take as much work as a good footnote; #2-4 can be done pretty easily if you can only discover what graders will think is a good source but they probably don't have one of their own. #3 is stellar in that regard.<br /><br />Somewhere in my junior year, probably about the time I started dating Tracy, my standards raised and I started actually reading the material. It made writing papers so much easier that my writing skills atrophied.Assistant Village Idiothttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01978011985085795099noreply@blogger.com