[Discuss] Aptitude Test or Family Feud?

[markw at mohawksoft.com (markw at mohawksoft.com)]

Did you not get a position at Google?

> On 10/26/21 1:42 PM, Shirley M??rquez D??lcey 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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