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Subject:Re: latest writing test From:Robert Plamondon <robert -at- PLAMONDON -dot- COM> Date:Sat, 10 Jun 1995 12:33:17 PDT
Bex writes:
>I just went to an interview where I was asked to write a guide to using a
>telephone, including introduction to concepts of telephone numbers and
>dialling codes, for an office worker who had never seen a telephone
>before and did not know what one was - to the extent of not even knowing
>that it was an accoustic device - but who was in every other way
>completely conversant in modern technology.
That's the stupidest test I've ever heard. As usual, the test serves
more to illuminate the inadequacies of the testers than the subjects.
Given the ground rules, my entry fits in one sentence:
"A telephone dials just like a FAX machine."
Since every non-telephone device was included, FAX machines are, too.
You gotta wonder about the people who write these tests. What are
they thinking? Are they thinking at all?
-- Robert
Robert Plamondon * Writer * robert -at- plamondon -dot- com * (408) 321-8771
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