Flattery

So I'm too immodest not to recount this episode. Our International econ professor had us working on replicating some results he recently published. His coauthor, a Harvard econ professor is teaching the same course to the Ph.D. students at Harvard's econ department; they assigned the same homework to both classes.

Talking on the phone recently, our prof told us, the Harvard prof had expressed concern that they'd made the assignment too difficult: her students were having real difficulty with it. He told her, "Oh, my students aren't having any trouble at all".