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30 people is a completely arbitrary number, arrived at not because it was the optimal class size, but because of resource constraints.
by marknutter 14y ago
30 people is a completely arbitrary number, arrived at not because it was the optimal class size, but because of resource constraints.
- bzalasky 14y agoIt's absolutely arbitrary, but it's a small enough number that everyone has a chance to contribute to the discussion. With this particular class it had nothing to do with resource constraints... maybe more to do with how many students were interested. I didn't have a single anthropology class after 101 that had more than 35 people in it (and this was at a large state school).