> You seem to think it is unreasonable and unfair to dock a test score for "careless" mistakes. I don't think that. I think it is unreasonable and unfair to t

> You seem to think it is unreasonable and unfair to dock a test score for "careless" mistakes. I don't think that. I think it is unreasonable and unfair to take someone who gets, say, a 93% average on the tests and didn't do most of the homework, and give him a 78% score in the class. I also think it's unreasonable to have a policy of allowing someone who gets 100% on the tests to get 100% in the class regardless of homework, but if they only got 99% on the tests, to instead give them 84% total because they didn't do homework. Did Hal Finney make a single math mistake on his final? If he did, would the professor have said, "Whoops, guess you haven't mastered the material, now we're going to give you a C because of the homework you didn't do"?