URL: Reading isn’t comprehending
We guess that’s what got us going: the distinction
between reading and comprehending; you can
measure comprehension, but not reading.
In a class, if a student tells us they’ve read
the chapter, book, the hand-out, the syllabus,
whatever… We can’t test that. An approximation would
be to test the material (comprehension?) before and after,
but even that could be …. invented; accidental; misleading,
in any number of ways.
So maybe what “don’t care if anybody reads this”
really means – it sounds like very very sour grapes -
is something like “You don’t understand it, anyway.
And even if you did, you couldn’t do anything about it.”
Which is probably why we reacted so, um, poignantly
to Scott Karp’s comment in passing.
