You can actually conduct scientific studies on teaching and grading, but that is not the point I was making. What concerned me is how a department full of scien

You can actually conduct scientific studies on teaching and grading, but that is not the point I was making. What concerned me is how a department full of scientists wasted their time discussing the importance of results which were statistically meaningless. The scatter was just noise yet we wasted hours (days) of our time discussing the supposed importance of this noise.