A Professor Let Members of One Class Set Their Own

question 197

Multiple Choice

A professor let members of one class set their own deadlines for submitting three papers in a three-month course. On the average, which students wrote the best papers?

• A) Those who allowed themselves the whole three months for all three papers.
• B) Those who set deadlines after the first, second, and third months.
• C) Those who turned all the papers in two months early.
• D) The quality of the papers had no relationship to the deadlines students chose.

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