This Reverse Inspiration blogger is sporting stripes, a short-sleeved grey cardigan, and pants. Definitely captured some of the definitive elements and one of the colors.
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But my outfit is all about the green...and the strangely blocked cardigan (color-blocked and blocky-shaped).
*Grey/green sleeveless cardigan (JNY), $8.82/wear+
White/grey striped top (Kohls), $2.83/wear
Green pants (JCP), $2.51/wear
Light grey wedges by BCBGeneration, $7.00/wear
Silver blob necklace (JNY), $2.45/wear
Outfit total: $23.61/wear
Well, a green-teal color, anyway. I figured it was close enough to green to wear with these green pants, but perhaps my bright teal pencil skirt would be a more exact match to the shade. But maybe the trusty blob necklace will draw people's attention away from this color semi-mishap.
I'm really glad I put this week's outfits together before we left on our trip. I had zero energy to do so when we got back.
And after work today, it was raining and windy and (dare I say) kind of chilly for a person without a jacket/coat (thankfully I had an umbrella at least). It's starting to feel a lot like autumn (though I still had my fan running in my office, so who the hell knows).
Today's time capsule post comes from way back when I was taking an undergrad introductory marketing course. I had just finished the second test in the class:
When I got home from taking my exam, I flipped through the
chapters of the book to identify which problems I missed. There were 8
problems that I had struggled with a bit and was able to determine that I
missed half of them - I had actually barely gotten one of them right
but had applied multiple choice test-taking heuristics and managed to
eke it out. But I also found that I had missed one question that seemed
obviously correct to me at the time. So my test score prediction was
90%.
Robert was quite
surprised that I could remember what the test questions were, and though
I could not sit down and totally recreate the test from memory, I did
remember many of the questions outright and could basically recognize
relevant terms or statements from the book and then remember the
question about them.
Two of my misses were totally fair - the questions that were asked about
two stages of the product lifecycle wanted answers that did not match up
with what I thought were the important aspects of those stages, but I
should have been able to answer but did not remember. One was somewhat
annoying simply because I misread the question as equating size to sales
volume rather than size to number of firms in the market and thus
answered the wrong question (and knew the right answer to the actual
question).
The question that I confidently answered incorrectly chaps me because I
suffered from both too much actual knowledge about the example being
used (segmentation strategy for REI) and the book stupidly equated
psychographic segmentation with the Claritas system of customer
profiling based on Census block-level data. Since I know deeply that
the probabilistic "lifestyle" segmentation programs like Claritas and
Tapestry...
Just this past weekend in Denton, I was talking to Tam about a question she wrote for her recent probability exam--I thought that I would be able to suppress my industry knowledge about how direct mail works enough to recognize that in the context of the test, I should use a Poisson distribution to answer the problem. (The class only covered a limited number of distributions and it is the best option of the lot.) But my response to that segmentation question on my marketing exam is a good reminder of how I get tripped up sometimes by knowing too much about a subject area. I'm guessing that most students taking undergrad courses do not have this problem.
Plus: this is my life.
2 comments:
I recall having this difficulty only once--when the Education program wouldn't accept that I had an entire degree in psychology, including developmental psychology, and made me take a different developmental psychology class.
Lots of smart people have this problem all through public school. Fortunately I never had math teachers who said "you can't subtract a bigger number from a smaller number" or any other sort of white lie that I noticed. The only time I noticed a public school teacher being wrong was when my World History teacher said that only [some other kind of primate but not humans--I forget] could squat while keeping their heels on the floor. Sadly, I did not yet have my current personality and did not demonstrate a counterexample.
Debbie, that's particularly sad given that what's taught in an education developmental psych class is typically way behind what is taught in a psychology department developmental psych class.
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