From: Ben Dawson (dawson.derbys@clara.net)
Date: Fri 20 Jan 2006 - 18:58:16 GMT
Just to say a *big* thanks to everyone who contributed ideas for my
memetics presentation in December. I found out today I'd got an A
(combined mark for both the presentation plus a written component).
Comments were:
Presentation:
Congratulations - we thought this was easily the best presentation we
saw to date and this is reflected in the mark. It was delivered in a
confident manner, you used lots of techniques to make it more
interesting and it was well referenced and gave a balanced view.
Wiki:
The wiki pages are equally good - they reflect and add to the
presentation and are very well referenced and illustrated.
The techniques I think he is referring to are the use of props and the
copying experiment - which were suggested on this list. I'm chuffed
with this because it all counts towards the class of degree I receive.
So many thanks for the input people!
On a related note, and possibly of interest to people, I had the exam
last week, and one of the choices of questions was:
What is "Darwin's Dangerous Idea" and why does Daniel Dennett seem to
think some researchers are scared of embracing it? [50 marks]
And in looking through the past exam papers, on the 2005 paper there
was:
Could the key ideas of dualism be said to form the basis of a very
successful meme? [50 marks]
Ben
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