Did you not get a position at Google? > 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. > > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss >
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