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Letter: Half wrong

Published 6 August 2008

From Gabriel Whiting

If the intelligent tutoring system at the University of California, San Diego, currently “gets it right less than half the time” (5 July, p 23) when analysing students’ expressions to gauge how hard lectures are, then how about taking its results and concluding the exact opposite? Easy becomes hard and hard becomes easy…

Monaco

Issue no. 2668 published 9 August 2008

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