Would you rather drown to death or fail your test?
Today, a fire started which caused sprinkler systems to burst open in a main hallwall of the building I took my probability test in today. The burst leaked water into the staircase to leave, and began flooding the entrance and I was given a choice, finish test or risk drowning. The water was also incredibly, incredibly hot. I chose the test.
Originally Posted by Me and a friend in that class afterward via FB
those professors should get sued
What a story. You'd think a major flooding would make the test invalid? You have to concentrate in an exam naturally, and I think worrying about a bloody hot flood would be a mitigating factor in all of this..
A high test score won't matter if you're dead!
I probably wouldn't have done well on the test anyway. Not that I would have scrambled out of the building. More likely to die in a panic than due to a flood or fire.
Jack: How do you know?
Will: It's more of a feeling really.
Jack: Well, that's not scientific. Feeling isn't knowing. Feeling is believing. If you believe it, you can't know because there's no knowing what you believe. Then again, no one should believe what they know either. Once you know anything that anything becomes unbelievable if only by virtue of the fact you now... know it. You know?
Will: No.
If Demolition Man were remade today
Huxley: What's wrong? You broke contact.
Spartan: Contact? I didn't even touch you.
Huxley: Don't you want to make love?
Spartan: Is that what you call this? Why don't we just do it the old-fashioned way?
Huxley: NO!
Spartan: Whoa! Okay, calm down.
Huxley: Don't tell me to calm down!
Spartan: What's gotten into you? 'Cause it sure as hell wasn't me.
Huxley: Physical relations in the way of intercourse are no longer acceptable John Spartan.
Spartan: What? Why the hell not?
Huxley: It's the law, John. And for your information, the very idea that you suggested it makes me feel personally violated.
Spartan: Wait a minute... violated? Huxley what the hell are you accusing me of here?
Huxley: You need to leave, John.
Spartan: But Huxley.
Huxley: Get out!
Moments later Spartan is arrested for "violating" Huxley.
By the way, that's called satire. Get over it.
I would finish the test like a MAN
This sounds absolutely insane to me.
We can estimate the number of extra points that you receive on the test (as compared to your peers who left immediately) as a function of time, (time=t) since the sprinklers went off, (time=0) by viewing it as a Poisson Process. I'm not sure how to factor in the whole risk of death thing into it though. trout would get pretty arbitrary pretty quickly.
oh i DID
I would put out the fire, get rid of the water, and then ace my test. I would then proceed to get so much poontang that I would receive every honorary degree from the University in which I was attending.
They would probably build a statue of me or name the stadium after me.
You didn't put out the fire or save a drowning puppy? Lame.
How was the fire started?
I'm assuming someone else wanted to get out of the test.
Might as well drown if I failed the test.
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The is really one correct answer. The water was just to enforce the time limit.
Drown the teacher.
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