Terse Posted September 18, 2009 Share Posted September 18, 2009 CLICK England's exams watchdog hired consultants to come up with alternatives to the word "error" amid concerns it had negative connotations, it was disclosed today. Mr Opposs said the watchdog had paid communications consultants Blue Rubicon to produce "a narrative for Ofqual staff to use when speaking about reliability and unreliability". As part of this work they were instructed to come up with suitable replacements for the word "error" to describe discrepancies in exam marking. A report presented by Mr Opposs at the conference said: "It was necessary to choose an alternative term to 'error' as this was too closely associated with culpability, and because it had an unhelpfully subtle word grammar." The word "variation" was chosen as the best alternative, ahead of suggestions including variance, uncertainty, discrepancy, inconsistency or clash. For 'variation' read 'bullshit'? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jimcalagon Posted September 18, 2009 Share Posted September 18, 2009 They should scrap grades in exams because of the negative connotations associated with not getting an A - just give everyone a 'Taken' grade to indicate that they took the exam. I would use the work 'dickheads' if it were not for the negative connotations. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluemonday Posted September 18, 2009 Share Posted September 18, 2009 *Ahem* Surely dickheads is inappropriate as it could be taken to be gender relative. Perhaps genitalheads would be a better term. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lao Posted September 18, 2009 Share Posted September 18, 2009 sometimes even an facepalm cant quite express the fail of a situation. i have thus invented the epic facepalm. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slinkydevil Posted September 18, 2009 Share Posted September 18, 2009 sometimes even an facepalm cant quite express the fail of a situation. i have thus invented the epic facepalm. Which could end up being quite pleasurable combined with a dickhead. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MilitantDogOwner Posted September 19, 2009 Share Posted September 19, 2009 Double Facepalm.....When one just isn't enough Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gilligan Posted September 19, 2009 Share Posted September 19, 2009 *Ahem*Surely dickheads is inappropriate as it could be taken to be gender relative. Perhaps genitalheads would be a better term. But now you're discriminating against creatures that don't have genitals, and heads. An official government commitee will now have to be formed to come up with a universal generic insult. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lao Posted September 20, 2009 Share Posted September 20, 2009 *Ahem*Surely dickheads is inappropriate as it could be taken to be gender relative. Perhaps genitalheads would be a better term. But now you're discriminating against creatures that don't have genitals, and heads. An official government commitee will now have to be formed to come up with a universal generic insult. i nominate "member of an official goverment commitee" to be the new universal generic insult. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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