Tuesday, November 02, 2004
Lances Of Death: 0, Steven: 2
The results from the second mid-term matchup have been released, with the defending champion Steven coming out on top again. This one was an extremely close fight, with the challenger Lance Of Death 2: Econometrics placing Steven on the defensive from the start with one of the dreaded colored-balls-in-a-pair-of-urns problems. Having prepared for this type of cruelty, Steven easily deflected the first two parts of the question, but was at a loss on the third section, to which he gave an inelegant and quite incorrect answer, consisting of jumbled collections of numbers and symbols.
With Steven reeling from the first attack, Lance Of Death 2 did not let up, but instead followed this up with a question which was conceptually simple, but required our defender to use lots of integration to get his answer. We all know that Steven can not integrate worth beans, and none of the answers produced by his scribblings made any intuitive sense, and eventually his work on the problem ground to a halt due to inescapable irrationality.
At this point our hero was feeling fairly downcast, but the enemy lashed out yet again with a deceptively simple problem, which Steven understood, and approached correctly, only to make a ridiculous error which rendered his answer meaningless. Unfortunately, by this time, Steven had no chance to recover, time was almost up, and the defending champion left the arena in a dejected state, contemplating various combinations of suicide and career change.
All was not lost however. Due to an low curve, and the granting of generous amounts of partial credit, Steven found himself only a few points below the mean score, which granted him the passing grade, and the victory.
Stay tuned for the results from the last Midterm Matchup: Steven versus Lance Of Death 3: Microeconomics.
The results from the second mid-term matchup have been released, with the defending champion Steven coming out on top again. This one was an extremely close fight, with the challenger Lance Of Death 2: Econometrics placing Steven on the defensive from the start with one of the dreaded colored-balls-in-a-pair-of-urns problems. Having prepared for this type of cruelty, Steven easily deflected the first two parts of the question, but was at a loss on the third section, to which he gave an inelegant and quite incorrect answer, consisting of jumbled collections of numbers and symbols.
With Steven reeling from the first attack, Lance Of Death 2 did not let up, but instead followed this up with a question which was conceptually simple, but required our defender to use lots of integration to get his answer. We all know that Steven can not integrate worth beans, and none of the answers produced by his scribblings made any intuitive sense, and eventually his work on the problem ground to a halt due to inescapable irrationality.
At this point our hero was feeling fairly downcast, but the enemy lashed out yet again with a deceptively simple problem, which Steven understood, and approached correctly, only to make a ridiculous error which rendered his answer meaningless. Unfortunately, by this time, Steven had no chance to recover, time was almost up, and the defending champion left the arena in a dejected state, contemplating various combinations of suicide and career change.
All was not lost however. Due to an low curve, and the granting of generous amounts of partial credit, Steven found himself only a few points below the mean score, which granted him the passing grade, and the victory.
Stay tuned for the results from the last Midterm Matchup: Steven versus Lance Of Death 3: Microeconomics.
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