On 10/26/21 1:42 PM, Shirley Márquez Dúlcey wrote:
That's bizarre. It's kind of the opposite of an adaptive test, where you
get more credit for knowing the difficult answers than for knowing the easy
ones.
They are looking for people who fit in? Certainly not looking for those
who gravitate to and spot boundary cases, for those people are
troublemakers.
For those of you who have never taken an adaptive test, it's a
computer-administered multiple choice test that gets a good idea of your
knowledge of a field with far fewer questions than a standard multiple
choice test. Basically, you get progressively more difficult questions
until you miss one, then a series of questions that are somewhere near the
same level as the one you missed to more accurately determine your level.
I can see how the approach is efficient. But is seems it is so
concentrated, there is little redundancy, that any, say, dyslexic noise
in the system could drop a score a lot.
Google does an early stage job interview that seems to be on the same model.
-kb, the Kent who didn't get the job and knows how to hold a grudge.
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