Absolute Pedanticness
I try really hard to not be unnecessarily pedantic. No really, I do. Okay, fine, don't believe me. There is an instance though, I have to say something. When you understand what the prof is trying to say, but they are putting something down on the board which is simply false. Even when they say that "When I write this, I mean that". I can let it slide, but it's gonna end up on the test. Do I really have to memorize which wrong answers to repeat on the test?

My economic prof doesn't use absolute value brackets and we just have to know whether a value is the magnitude or the signed value. Fine, I'll add absolute brackets to the elasticity index in my notes. No big deal. Are %ΔP and %ΔQ signed? Well, it depends and you just have to keep that straight in your head. Actually I'm not sure when they are signed or unsigned as it seems to change--even in the same example. It's signed when you find it right before determining the %Δ of Total Revenue. What is the relationship of %ΔP and %ΔQ when the price increases of an elastic good? %ΔP<%ΔQ. What? No, that's just wrong. %ΔP>0>%ΔQ and |%ΔP|<|%ΔQ|. I have no idea which answer I should put down on a test.

As usual, my pedanticness didn't go over well. I was told to ignore the table, where she put that answer in, if it confuses me.

Update: There is a note on UW-ACE that she'll rewrite the example to remove confusion. Let's hope for absolute value brackets. *fingers crossed*
Update2: I should note that I gave her my userid number for something unrelated and she didn't believe it was a valid ID. I guess she hasn't run into someone who started in the 90s.