Why are records always "SMASHED!!!"

regarding the answer to the question: what is 2 + 3

Just let me repeat

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Originally Posted by ian

It's a joke Bob.

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perhaps go back and read the different responses

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Originally Posted by BobL

I am reminded of a Temp-Time graph of water supposedly coming up to the boil from room temp submitted in an experimental report by a grade 11 chemistry student back in 1978. The graph showed a quick rise in temp to about 35ºC and then it did not change much after that. Instead of placing the bulb in the water the student had been holding the thermometer bulb between his fingers and had the other end in heating water. I think that student ended up doing engineering at Uni.

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and it's perhaps best if I not comment on the quality and teaching prowess of newly minted W.A. high school science teachers in the 1970s

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Originally Posted by ian

and it's perhaps best if I not comment on the quality and teaching prowess of newly minted W.A. high school science teachers in the 1970s

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Well I do remember working very hard with that particular student as he was very keen, came from a very disadvantaged background and english was not his first language, However, I would not like to claim all the credit for getting him into uni. He was also quite talented at maths, I think he got something like 95% for his calculus subject mark.

Your point above about the measurement being a civil activity is precisely my point. I'm confident the thermometers at the Adelaide BOM would have been up to a 0.1C measurement task but the personnel and other circumstances might not have been.

Just in:
https://www.theguardian.com/australi...onth-on-record