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Owlify
9m ago
Yes, but their status relative to their husband will be lower, and even if they don't care about that then the things you have to do to marry someone high status and stay married to them are very different from the things you have to do to have your own achievements and gain status through them. One is much more agentic and less dependent on other people so it will be the preferred method.
SkoomaDentist
50m ago
I did engineering but the grading guide for such questions was generally "A perfect answer should cover almost all of [a list of points]". A question might be something like "Explain FIR and IIR filters and compare their advantages and disadvantages" (I specialized in signal processing). You can fit quite a lot of points in two pages if you don't spend the majority of it on pointless waffling like Scott always does.
Another way to look at it is that if four pages of writing is enough to get me a conference paper (and thus effectively counts as a course's worth of credits with a perfect grade), why should I spend more than half of that on an essay worth 25% of exam points?
Sure, it's different if you're studying literature or something similar where the writing itself is the point but for the vast majority of topics the point of such essay answers is simply to show that you understand the topic, not to make the grader suffer through your poorly filtered stream of consciousness.
You never know. When my toy railway project stalled because I couldn't be bothered to print 20 iterations to get the turnouts right, I stopped and my printer has been gathering dust since. I should probably sell it.
On the other hand, my former colleague has been printing stuff like a possessed man.
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