[LM_NET] Gameshow: the correct answer was "false"

[Christine Rinehart <rinehartc1@GAYLORD.K12.MI.US>]

The correct answer is false. It was the first time I watched and I was
amazed at the poor wording, also. It is almost a double negative. I had
to take the "NOT" out and then reverse my answer: Fiction books are
assigned numbers in the Dewey Decimal System. This is, of course, true-
all fiction books are technically in the 800s in Dewey's system as
literature. So that must mean putting the "NOT" in the question changes
the answer to "false". Personally, I told my husband that this either
proved that the show was rigged (please, how many students know that
fiction books are technically 800s in the Dewey system even though
many/most libraries do not catalog them that way?) OR it proves how
badly the question was worded.

 

Christine Rinehart

Library Media Specialist

Gaylord Community Schools

Gaylord Michigan

989-731-0856 ext. 1511

989-731-0969 ext. 1217

 

 


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