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Clan Mackie was a prominent Galwegien family in the 16th and early 17th centuries. The Mackies of Larg were the principal family of the clan. At the beginning of the 17th century, Sir Patrick Mackie of Larg was one of the original fifty Scottish undertakers of the plantation of Ulster.
John Bartlett Mackie CStJ (11 February 1895 — 16 September 1983) was an English first-class cricketer, soldier, airman, and a figure in the automotive industry. Mackie was born in June 1898 at Wincanton, Somerset. He was educated at Taunton School, before matriculating to Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge. [1]
John Leslie Mackie FBA (25 August 1917 – 12 December 1981) was an Australian philosopher. He made significant contributions to ethics, the philosophy of religion, metaphysics, and the philosophy of language. Mackie had influential views on metaethics, including his defence of moral scepticism and his sophisticated defence of atheism. He wrote ...
J. L. Mackie, Australian-born philosopher, best known for his views on meta-ethics; Clan Mackie, a Scottish clan; Mackie Osborne, an artist responsible for the design and illustrations of many music albums since the 1980s; Malcolm Mackie Hobson (born 1966), South African former cricketer; Matthew Mackie Samoskevich (born 2002), American ice ...
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Born in Edinburgh, Mackie was educated at Middlesbrough High School and Jesus College, Oxford, where he took a first-class degree in history and won the Lothian Essay Prize. He was appointed as a lecturer in history at the University of St Andrews in 1909, aged 22. While at the university he introduced the subject of Scottish history into the ...
Mackie was the eldest of a family of fifteen children, was born in 1748 at Dunfermline Abbey in Fifeshire. In 1763 he commenced his medical studies at Edinburgh and on leaving the university he settled at Huntingdon. About 1792 he removed to Southampton, and there practised with great success till 1814, when he left for a ten years' tour on the ...
Multiple choice questions lend themselves to the development of objective assessment items, but without author training, questions can be subjective in nature. Because this style of test does not require a teacher to interpret answers, test-takers are graded purely on their selections, creating a lower likelihood of teacher bias in the results. [8]