Math Pessimism, Edited: Failed the Test
'I must be terrible at math' after a failed test is edited into skepticism about tests.
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Cartoon by Ben Orlin, Math with Bad Drawings. https://cartoons.mathwithbaddrawings.com/2016-02-03-math-pessimism-edited-failed-the-test/ (CC BY-NC 4.0)Transcript
[Before] "I failed the last test. I must be terrible at math."
[After] "I failed the last test. But I must ~~be terrible at math~~ not overrate the capacity of a highly artificial assessment to measure the full richness and breadth of my abilities."