degrees

Surely this would be a good thing. It would means the people would be a lot smarter on the whole. And there would be greater choice when it comes time to hiring. The pools of potential employees would be much greater. But I sense that others don't feel this way. Am I right on that?

I believe that my lab instructor is making an error about the correct number of degrees of freedom he wants us to use in our chi-square analysis. We are using the chi-square test to evaluate our Drosophila melanogaster inheritance observations. He is having us calculate the 'observed -...

My lab partner at work posits that there are degrees of morality. Being the Devil's Advocate that I am, I'm disagreeing. Care to help me out, or shoot me down? I'd love to see both sides of this argument presented. Thanks in advance. It may be true. :)

Here's a good one. A work machine, running XP on a network, with internet access and someone's MSN Messenger set to kick in on startup. First, the mouse stopped working. Followed by a second mouse. At this point I got involved as the user came to scrounge my spare rodent. Five minutes later, I...

It is clear that there is a high level of education on this BB in many different interests. In my own curiosity I was wondering… For those who have a graduate degree: How long did it take you to write your thesis/dissertation? What did you write it on? What are you currently doing with that...