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  3. From: billn@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com (bill nelson)
  4. Subject: Re: Heavy Boots
  5. Message-ID: <1992Jul31.063652.376@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com>
  6. Organization: Hewlett-Packard Company, Corvallis, Oregon USA
  7. References: <schumach.712543067@convex.convex.com>
  8. Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1992 06:36:52 GMT
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  11. schumach@convex.com (Richard A. Schumacher) writes:
  12. : In <1992Jul30.161658.26111@news.iastate.edu> partee@iastate.edu (Jonathan F Partee) writes:
  13. : 
  14. : [recounts that 48 out of 168 people in a course titled "Physics 324 - 
  15. : Modern Physics for Engineers" did not know that a pen dropped on the
  16. : Moon would fall to the Moon]
  17.  
  18. To make it even worse - I am willing to bet that, if you checked where
  19. the students who gave the wrong answers went to high school, you would
  20. find that a disproportionate number attended US schools.
  21.  
  22. Bill
  23.