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[–] 149 points 1 year ago* (44 children)

A perfectly designed test - ambiguous enough that anyone subjected to it can be failed.

I still don't know what #11 is "supposed" to be.

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  • [–] 41 points 1 year ago (8 children)

    I think it's supposed to say "Cross out the digit necessary", so one digit, in which case cross out the 1 because there's enough 0's that crossing out one 0 isn't enough.

    It's 10 that has me confused. Is it asking for the last letter of the first word that starts with 'L' in that sentence? It doesn't actually specify.

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  • [–] 33 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    Can anyone explain #1 to me? What are you supposed to circle? It says "the number or the letter". There's 1 number and the entire sentence is literally letters...

    It's like when the waiter asks "Soup or salad?" and you say "Yes".

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  • [–] 26 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Circle? It clearly says draw a line around whatever you decided wrongly to indicate. Lines don't curve and aren't boxes, so good luck.

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    You got enough answers but here's how you deny someone the right to vote: the question really means you need to make the number 1000000 exact as that is the number "below" the question. Not fewer, physically below.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Oh good, now we have three completely different answers

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  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago

    Four. You need to make the number below (less than) one million, so cross out zeros until it's 100,000.
    ”0000000” isn't a properly formatted number.

    It's a fun game finding the ways you can tell someone whatever they said is wrong.

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  • [–] 16 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    And 13 is unclear if it's strictly 'more than' or 'more than or equal'

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    You need to cross out enough zeros so that it makes a million. Pretty sure

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I mean purely pedantic, I have no idea the original test writers... but based on how I read the words

    The number (one singular number needs to be crossed out)

    Below one million, IE number < 1,000,000

    So my conclusion

    10000000000 < 1,000,000

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  • What's interesting about the literacy tests is how much they have in common with IQ tests!

    For example, a friend of mine remembers his childhood testing. For part of it a child is handed a set of cards and told to put them in order.

    They have pictures of a set of blocks being assembled into a structure and the sun moves in an arc in the background.

    Following the order implied by the sun is, apparently, wrong.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago* (5 children)

    You cross out all of the 0s after the 1 and first 5 0s, so that the number is 100,000

    Or you cross out just the 1

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Six zeroes, right? Five zeroes makes one hundred thousand. Six makes a million. Or am I missing something?

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    You need to make it under one million

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  • [–] 20 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    This is an example of the gotcha this test did, you can read the question two different ways. Making the number below the question one million, or making the number itself below one million.

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