Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
> Warp wrote:

> >   Question 5 doesn't make any sense.
> > 
> >   I have hard time parsing that question.

> Of course, the stupid thing is that with questions like that, maybe 
> that's the challenge. To try to figure out what the actual question is. 
> Maybe they made it nonsensicle on purpose to see how people would react. 
> Retarded but true...

  There was an article somewhere on the subject of why "clever" questions
which expect "clever" answers are actually counterproductive.

  A typical "clever" question is like "how would you weigh a Boeing 747?",
and it's expected that you come up with some convoluted solution to the
problem, while pragmatic answers like "I would consult the specification
manual" or "I would ask an engineer" are discarded.

  However, from a practical point of view those pragmatic answers are
much, much better than any convoluted answer you could come up with.
Why? Because if you come up with a convoluted answer it shows that you
tend to come up with convoluted solutions to simple problems, rather than
doing the practical thing and just consult a manual or other source which
*already* knows the answer, which would be the best thing to do in a
practical situation in the job.

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                                                          - Warp

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