We watched the following video as part of the ED6114 course:
It was very interesting and powerfully presented, but I found upon reading the blog of the professor behind the project (http://mediatedcultures.net/ksudigg/?p=119) that the data used to come up with the statistics that are so powerful to the film was not necessarily accurate. For example, on the blog it is stated that the question asked in relation to getting the statistic "I will write 42 pages for class this semsester" was "On average, how many pages do you write for your classes each semester?"
From this question, it is unclear whether the question was referring to pages per class during a semester or pages total for all classes in the semester.
Again, in reference to the "I will read 8 books this year" statistic, the question that was asked was "how many books have you read this year?" There was confusion as to whether this meant this semester, the year from january on, or the academic year from teh previous July.
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