On 01/25/2018 07:07 AM, Roman Shaposhnik wrote: > On Wed, Jan 24, 2018 at 9:55 PM, Justin Mclean <jus...@classsoftware.com> > wrote: >> Hi, >> >>> I got inconsistent results from the same answer out of the same choices on >>> the same question. It was not clear to me that many of the questions are >>> “check all that apply”. >> >> I will add that to make it clearer. >> >>> Some of the questions are poorly worded, e.g. something like “can Apache >>> rely on cat X software”: >> >> I used that wording as it is used in the legal resolved page. [1] “depend” >> or “rely on a dependancy” may be better words to use. >> >>> For many of the questions I thought there was a mismatch between my >>> understanding of Apache policy and any of the possible answers presented, >>> and I ended up feeling vaguely insulted. >> >> Sorry that was certainly not my intention. > > I was holding off on this -- but now I just can't resit. So here it goes: > > Surely we are not talking about some kind of an official ASF exam test > here, right? > > This is more of a fun quiz that makes people think about certain things which > means that anything goes -- trick questions, silly questions, whatever (not > that > I'm making a judgement call on what Justin has there -- just pointing > this out in > general). > > In that sense, how could anyone has a "...I ended up feeling vaguely insulted" > is a tad beyond my understanding. > > So I guess my only bit of feedback would be this: use this opportunity to make > the test go: "ah well, here's the thing..." when somebody ends up with one > of those "not quite" answers.
Trick questions could be fun ;) provided they are educational. > > Just my 2c. > > Thanks, > Roman. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
