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Old 08-02-2007, 09:11 AM posted to uk.rec.gardening
Sally Thompson Sally Thompson is offline
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Default Totally OT, help requested

On Wed, 7 Feb 2007 21:16:17 +0000, Mike Lyle wrote
(in article ):

'Mike' wrote:
"Mike Lyle" wrote in message
.. .
My apologies for the OTness, but I hope I'm a familiar enough urgler
for people to judge that this isn't spam.

[...]

Yes we know you sufficiently to assist, well I am anyway:-), but can
we know what it is about before we 'plunge in' please.

[...]

That's very kind: one of the problems the youngsters have with this kind
of thing is getting enough independent participants. But I'm afraid
that, as I'm one of the guinea pigs, it might tend to invalidate the
experiment if I knew what it was about!* My guess is probably much the
same as yours: I imagine he's hoping to compare people's results on one
kind of test with those on another, and see if there's any difference
which can be correlated with other known factors. The task may be to
compare two differing schools of thought; but I really have no idea.


Well I for one didn't need to know what it was about - it was sufficient to
know you as an urgler. I have to say this took me back to 11 Plus days -
people of my generation will remember those exams! I had great fun doing it
but found some of the questions surprisingly hard (and some very easy,
natch). I look forward to hearing whether I've got a place in my nearest
grammar school!

Good luck to your son.



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