Word: correctives
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Harvard graduate student this week proved there is a third correct answer to the controversial "pyramid" question on last fall's Preliminary Scholastic Aptitude Test (PSAT...
However, officials from the Educational Testing Service (ETS), which administers the PSAT, said this week that students who chose the third correct answer will not receive credit for the question...
Lawrence A. Denenberg '76, a Ph.D. candidate in applied mathematics, found the new answer after he heard that Daniel Lowen, a 17-year-old Florida high school student had found an alternative correct answer to the one designated...
...School in Florida. Told his score in the math portion of the Preliminary Scholastic Aptitude Test that he took last fall along with 830,000 other students nationwide, Dan was displeased. He was convinced that his answer to question No. 44-one of those marked incorrect-was in fact correct. He even made a model to prove his case to his father, Douglas Lowen, an environmental system engineer on the space shuttle. Recalls Dan: "My dad tried to prove that I was wrong, but he couldn...
...nearing a psychological abyss. It was Freud who first removed the element of accident from language with his explanation of "slips," but lately others have extended his theories. Psychiatrist Richard Yazmajian, for example, suggests that there are some incorrect words that exist in associative chains with the correct ones for which they are substituted, implying a kind of "dream pair" of elements in the speaker's psyche. The nun who poured tea for the Irish bishop and asked, "How many lords, my lump?" might therefore have been asking a profound theological question...