• SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world
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    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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      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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      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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          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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        3 months ago

        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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          There is more than one right answer, which means there’s always a wrong answer to disqualify the target of prejudice from voting.

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        Ah, but they can get you because a bunch of zeros isn’t “a number”.

        You could cross out the first 1000000… leaving just the last zero, though.