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Walter & Group...
[GH] I WILL BE AWAY FROM MY COMPUTER FOR THE NEXT FEW DAYS.
Guy Manning brings up some interesting points as he considers our last couple of Group messages with respect to levels of education and the use of certain words such as TRANSLATION. He finishes by recommending that this should be considered as we examine candidates.
Gordy
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>From Guy Manning:
Mark writes:
This is an MCI study group, however, and it is not unreasonable to expect a Masters Candidate to not only know that there is a difference between rotation and translation but also how they work together within a casting stroke. There is no maths required, no engineering, no graduate level physics, these two terms are so basic that they are taught to 10 year old kids at school.
I have enjoyed Marks comments and have found little that I can disagree with. He also has me curious how 2 cucumbers and an egg plant can illustrate casting concepts. I do, though, question the last part of the statement above...
Like all things in life, education doesn't stand still. I remember my little brother, about 9 or 10 at the time, coming home and telling us about the "new math" he was learning in the same school I was attending, but 2 years behind me. He was insisting that 1 and 1 did not equal 2, it equaled 3. And, that some math only had 8 numbers, while other math had 16. Of course I laughed at him and told him the nuns were crazy. It wasn't until I took a class on how computers worked, in college, that I found out how wrong I was. There I discovered 1 and 1 indeed do not equal 2. In a binary numbering system 1 + 1 = 11. Factoring that, 11(binary) = 3 (decimal ), so he was right. I also learned about base n numbering systems where a base 8 (octal) system indeed uses only 8 characters and a base 16 (hexadecimal) system uses 16.
About a decade ago, while in my 50's, I was working with two young teenagers on their casting and showed them Neil Perkins paper. I understood the gist of the paper but was completely lost by the equations presented. The younger of the boys (13) also didn't understand the whole thing, only parts, but the older (14) said it all made perfect sense to him.
I have pretty much always known what rotation was, it never needed explaining because it was an everyday word in everyone's vocabulary. Translation, in the sense that we use it in casting discussions, was a word I had never come across until early in the last decade. It's first use for casting came to me in a discussion on the FFFCCI Yahoo Group in 2002, I believe it was.
My point being, we have to take into account that not all of us have had the same life experiences, let alone the same quality of education. We shouldn't assume the rest of the world understands or knows the same things we do just because it has been common knowledge within our own field of experience. So you are correct that it doesn't require math or engineering or a Phd, but don't expect everyone to know it. More importantly, we should not be failing candidates on that basis.
Guy Manning
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[GH] Guy,
I was waiting for someone to ask Bob Stouffer just how he goes about teaching fly casting with a basket of veggies. Love to learn how to do that !
In turn, Bob asks:
"Dr. Gordy
I do not want to miss the " if you don’t know what “I as an SL’er” knows," meaning. Please. Bob Stouffer"
Gordy
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Guy Manning clarifies his abbreviations:
TMI = textspeak for "too much information"
The next one is to be read as if coming from a Sexyloop member.
I, as a Sexyloops member, or "Sexylooper" (SL'er).
Guy Manning
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