And while it is true that American students often behave badly while studying abroad, we should remember that American colleges have created a revenue bonanza by sending their students abroad on programs that provide little in the way of structure or serious academic obligations.
And the firm was involved in one of the worst civil engineering disasters of the past 30 years, when part of a tunnel for its Heathrow Express train service collapsed in 1994.The firm studied many badly-run projects from the past, which led it to the conclusion that the traditional idea that risk could be passed on to suppliers by means of complicated contracts was a fiction.
Perhaps inevitably, I wound up balancing the whole social side of university with studying badly.
Self confidence is important; focusing on how little you've studied or how badly you think you will do on the exam just distracts you from working on achieving success.
The north-east, already war-ravaged, with 40,000 people displaced by the fighting and in camps, was especially badly hit.A study published by the World Bank and other agencies this month estimated that recovering from the disaster would require about $1.5 billion in external aid, two-thirds of it in the north and east.
Poorly posed hypotheses, badly planned study protocols, inaccurate data collection and wrong statistical analyses compromise the quality of the final manuscript much more than do writing errors, often irreversibly.
If an intervention is working particularly well or badly, the study may need to be ended early for ethical reasons.
Finally, it deserves to be mentioned that no amount of genetic, technological or statistical sophistication can compensate for a badly devised study.
While poor statistical analyses can be run again, "...a badly designed study with inferior data is beyond the redemption of the most sophisticated statistical technique" [ 3].
But the writing was in classical Chinese, which I've never studied, and the surface was badly scarred.
