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> answer detailed questions in order to evaluate the percentage of your comprehension Did you consider the possibility that they rigged the test? You read a di
by alister 10y ago
> answer detailed questions in order to evaluate the percentage of your comprehension
Did you consider the possibility that they rigged the test? You read a difficult text at your normal slow rate, and you score 90% comprehension. Then they give you an easy text to speed read, and surprise-surprise, you score 90% on the easy test.
Or they could give you a difficult text but ask easy questions about it. There are so many ways to cheat the methodology.
I'm wondering if a speed reading course is going to do objective tests on its paying customers.
Funny story: I once saw a Rubik's Cube competition in which players were competing to see who solved it the fastest. There were 3 rounds to competition, and in each round all the players got a freshly scrambled cube (each players' cube scrambled the same way of course). In the 1st round, the fastest player took about a minute; in the 2nd round, 45 seconds, and in the 3rd round, someone solved it in 20 seconds!
It was obvious to me that the competition organizers had chosen highly disordered cubes for the 1st round and less disordered cubes for the 3rd round. They rigged the test because they want more drama for the final round.