Comments on: Odds and ends http://cameroncounts.wordpress.com/2011/04/18/odds-and-ends/ always busy counting, doubting every figured guess . . . Tue, 18 Jun 2013 17:33:51 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Paul Hewson http://cameroncounts.wordpress.com/2011/04/18/odds-and-ends/#comment-5243 Fri, 06 Jul 2012 09:24:54 +0000 http://cameroncounts.wordpress.com/?p=1251#comment-5243 I think it’s food for thought as well. I can find 20 billion things wrong with the survey, but these random effects seem to fit the kind of story people construct (like maths assessment is objective) – and they have implications. Are maths students nervous of handling unfamiliar problems because we have been keeping them very nicely constrained with the problems they do work.

By the way, you’re right to argue about the binary classification (done this way for computational convenience)- I have since reworked it as an ordinal logistic problem but that still hides the fact that there are surprisingly large number of people who just tick 5.5.5.5.5 for everything.

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