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Outrail posted:I'd love to see the professor/TA trying to argue that 'Both A and B are correct' is correct. I mean, I wouldnt normally but you are that guy who argues with the quiz master at pub quiz nights, making everyones night tangibly worse, so.... It says A and C. Not A and B.
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None of that even matters, how can there be two "first" people?
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Zokari posted:None of that even matters, how can there be two "first" people? They could have done so independently of each other, with overlapping timelines.
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Oct 29, 2017 18:55
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"Georg Bauer" and "Georgius Agricola" are two names for the same guy.
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Precambrian posted:"Georg Bauer" and "Georgius Agricola" are two names for the same guy. 
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Yeah, someone pointed out already that the order of answers was likely randomized by the software, screwing up the quiz and turning it into something weird like:code:
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Oct 29, 2017 20:41
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Oh god, didn't we have that one posted in here already ?
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HerStuddMuffin posted:Yeah, someone pointed out already that the order of answers was likely randomized by the software, screwing up the quiz and turning it into something weird like: A whole online quiz with this sort of poo poo and you get a passing grade if you email the professor to complain.
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In a similar vein, this is what a literacy test black people had to pass to vote in the Jim Crow era South looked like. This particular one was 30 questions in total, this is just the first page.  The questions were deliberately vague so the examiner could fail anyone they wanted (all black people).
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Pakled posted:In a similar vein, this is what a literacy test black people had to pass to vote in the Jim Crow era South looked like. This particular one was 30 questions in total, this is just the first page. Holy crap  . I mean, I'm not sure why I'm surprised. But drat.Also: I'm particularly struck by the arbitrary parenthetical, "one inside (engulfed by) the other"
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Pakled posted:In a similar vein, this is what a literacy test black people had to pass to vote in the Jim Crow era South looked like. This particular one was 30 questions in total, this is just the first page. quote:Circle the first, first letter of the alphabet in this line. wtf This is absolutely horrible. And one wrong answer means you fail!
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Count Roland posted:wtf I think it means you need to circle the first 'a'. But can be five other things, easily.
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Paladinus posted:I think it means you need to circle the first 'a'. But can be five other things, easily. That's sort of the point. Even one wrong answer counts as a failure, and enough questions are ambiguous that even if you think you got everything right, the person doing the grading could just decide to fail you by interpreting the question differently.
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Every time those things come up a bunch of people get bamboozled trying to solve them.
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And to make matters worse there were two more pages and you only had 15 minutes to finish the test.
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As others have pointed out, right from question 1 the whole point is that there are multiple ways to answer the arbitrarily worded questions, so the examiner has complete discretion to pass or fail you. Number 1: didn't circle the 1? Sorry, you fail. Circled the 1? Sorry, you should have circled the phrase "the number or letter of this sentence". Drew a full circle? Sorry, it says "draw a line" so you shouldn't have made the two ends connect, since other questions say "circle" instead of "draw a line around". And on and on, for every question. Oh sorry, looks like you messed up and don't get to vote. Try again in four years.
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vyelkin posted:As others have pointed out, right from question 1 the whole point is that there are multiple ways to answer the arbitrarily worded questions, so the examiner has complete discretion to pass or fail you. Number 1: didn't circle the 1? Sorry, you fail. Circled the 1? Sorry, you should have circled the phrase "the number or letter of this sentence". Drew a full circle? Sorry, it says "draw a line" so you shouldn't have made the two ends connect, since other questions say "circle" instead of "draw a line around". And on and on, for every question. But of course, the examiner gets some discretion. I can't put my finger on it, but there's something about all the people he's lenient with.
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Absurd Alhazred posted:But of course, the examiner gets some discretion. I can't put my finger on it, but there's something about all the people he's lenient with. Something about a paper bag afaik
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Absurd Alhazred posted:But of course, the examiner gets some discretion. I can't put my finger on it, but there's something about all the people he's lenient with. They're all the good ol' boys from round the way
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Oct 31, 2017 05:30
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I think in practice most white people just didn't have to take them.
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pangstrom posted:I think in practice most white people just didn't have to take them. That's the origin of "grandfathering". If your granddad could vote, so can you.
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I think I recall from the last time that came up that it was of unknown provenance, and possibly fake. It certainly looks dramatically less 'official' than the 1963 test, which is also considerably more straightforward in terms of right and wrong answers.
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Oct 31, 2017 19:58
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   Welcome to the real world
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Dreddout posted:
Time Cube or Church of the Subgenius?
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Tag yourself, I'm either ANANKE BAD or HENRY FORD REVOLT
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I'm "History: It is all bad, all of it, but some day in the future it could be horrendous"
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 Aleph Null posted:Time Cube or Church of the Subgenius? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Laffoley
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It's like a bunch of Dr. Bronner's soap bottles having an orgy.
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RPG rules are getting pretty out of hand
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More of a diagram than a chart, but I saw this around a month ago when evacuating from Irma
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Dreddout posted:
Too complicated. I'm going to McDonald's.
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Sentient Data posted:More of a diagram than a chart, but I saw this around a month ago when evacuating from Irma This is like the opposite of that "tidal wave of DEBT" comic, both ideologically and stylistically. Edit: Found it. gently caress Ramirez. 
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Nov 1, 2017 20:18
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Dude really likes drawing large things and labeling them "debt."
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What’s nice about that comic is that you can replace “debt” with any political football and reuse it again and again. “White resentment”, “China”, “Probable Tech Bubble”.
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lifg posted:What’s nice about that comic is that you can replace “debt” with any political football and reuse it again and again. “White resentment”, “China”, “Probable Tech Bubble”. Not really with Ramirez, he just makes other things and labels them debt.
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Bors. Bors never gets old. 
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This is in fact a very good chart. Only mildly optimistic.
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Question is, did the chart maker mean anything by having a star of David surrounded by four swastikas?
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Zemyla posted:Question is, did the chart maker mean anything by having a star of David surrounded by four swastikas? I’m sure it’s a coincidence.
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