Monday, March 01, 2004

Nothing like a dose of stupidity on a Monday evening. Look at the following question. Even if you know absolutely nothing about fitness (this is from my PE final) you should be able to figure out which answer is WRONG.

Amanda went on a cruise with her family to the Caribbean. She did not lift weights for fourteen days. What will she experience due to her lay-off?
a. hypertrophy
b. circumtrophy
c. atrophy
d. entropy
e. none of the above

The answer is obviously "c. atrophy", because the defination of atrophy is "the wasting away of a muscle or tissue, especially caused by lack of use." The answer the stupid PE teacher at BYU supplied as correct is "d. entropy" which is defined as "a measurement of randomness in a system."

While we're at it... here's the question that comes after that:

Sean always gets angry when his sister uses his stuff without asking. What would help him to not get so angry?
a. He needs to convince himself that he does not have to let it get to him.
b. He should take a time out to figure out the situation.
c. He should forgive and show love for his sister.
d. All of the above would help him.

I hate working with morons.

2 Comments:

At 5:30 AM, Blogger SaberDelta said...

There's a very similar question on the BYU independent study online course, except now above it it says,

"Your lesson score is not affected by answering this question."

Obviously enough people complained about it and they stopped making it a required question. On a side note, I found your blog while googling "circumtrophy" to try and figure out what the hell it is.

 
At 8:35 AM, Blogger Isaac said...

Haha! Me too.

 

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