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Margin of Error

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When it comes to the subject of education,the most obvious objective is to gain mastery over the subject that one is learning. An idiom that is often used to describe academic success, is passing with flying colours. It's a bright and vibrant picture, to say the least about the feasibility of colours actually being able to take flight. In my own experience as a  student, I find that when it comes to thinking about academic highlights, memories about getting high grades are the ones that come first to mind.  It makes me wonder if that is all there is to it. Could the point of going through the strain of school, or whatever it may be that is occupying your efforts, just be the result at the end of it. This importance that we put on results can be such a great load or one to carry. If the result is some thing favourable we tend to be jubilant and it only ever is this way when one wins.  We almost never celebrate our loses and blunders. There is a lot...