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Medical Recruiter: "What are mitochondria?" Applicant Doctor: "They're double membrane-bound organelles found in all eukaryotic organisms, commonly between 0.7
by jackweirdy 10y ago
Medical Recruiter: "What are mitochondria?"
Applicant Doctor: "They're double membrane-bound organelles found in all eukaryotic organisms, commonly between 0.75 and 3μm in diameter, that generate most of the cell's supply of adenosine triphosphate"
Recruiter: "No. They are the powerhouse of the cell".
- ryandrake 10y agoWhat are the components that make up a color? "Well, it depends what color model you are using, which differentiates between additive and subtractive color mixing, the medium used (print, screen, etc.)... No. It's Red, Green, and Blue.
- chrismorgan 10y agoBut hang on, the primary colours are red, yellow and blue! I know, they told me so in primary school.
- cwilkes 10y agoThose primary colors are real to me dammit! /colorblind
- madamelic 10y agoI legitimately had a huge argument with my (former) roommate over primary colors. She was more artsy, I was insistent that the primary colors were RGB, she was insistent that they were RYB. We googled. We were both right in some senses.
- snovv_crash 10y agoCMYK would be right. RYB means you can't produce cyan or magenta or vivid purples or pinks.
- tomsaffell 10y agoGood job you didn't have a third roommate who worked in printing...
- madamelic 10y agoHilariously enough, my fiance now works in printing and actually mixes the colors (t-shirt printing). I haven't brought it up yet because we once had a fight over whether that thing you put outside your shower is called a bath mat or a bath rug (Both are correct in different circumstances)
- AnimalMuppet 10y agoI had the same argument with my wife (fortunately not huge...)
- ggambetta 10y agoNot sure how much you're kidding, but... that's true for a subtractive colour system, where you start with a white sheet of paper (i.e. reflects every wavelength) and subtract colours (filter out wavelengths) by painting over the paper with crayons. For an additive colour system, where you start with a black monitor screen, and you add wavelengths, the primaries are RGB.
- jcl 10y ago...and, strictly speaking, the subtractive colors that closest match the typical human eye are cyan, magenta, and yellow -- the "CMY" of CMYK printer inks. Using red, yellow, and blue as subtractive colors gets you a big enough gamut for elementary school color mixing, but it won't give you as big a range of colors as CMY.
- bastijn 10y agoThese kind of comments is why I love this site. The guy was obviously 100% joking but the engineers in us are bound to reply nonetheless. It reminds me of a classic Dilbert. https://goo.gl/images/7DhC9f https://goo.gl/images/7DhC9f
- chrismorgan 10y ago… and we just add K because a separate black ink is cheaper and more precise.
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- pfarnsworth 10y agoI'm sorry you're incorrect. This paper says Red, Yellow and Blue. Thanks for your time, we'll be in contact.
- nothis 10y agoTotally off topic (except for the fact that "correctness" of an answer can be a deeper problem than checking against a list) but when you look at how the cones in your eyes are connected to the brain to actually transfer color information it's indeed closer to Red-Green/Yellow-Blue (as described in Lab*). That's why we intuitively include yellow as a "primary color" even though you can just use RGB to describe it.
- zem 10y agowow, there's an entire school just to teach that? (:
- timv 10y ago"They told me so in primary school" is clearly anecdotal evidence. You really need a proper citation. Like this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yu44JRTIxSQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yu44JRTIxSQ
- astn 10y ago"Draw the first letter of the alphabet please". 'a' No. The right answer is 'A'. We will stop here because it's obvious that you don't have the necessary skills.
- mrkgnao 10y agoIf the HN crowd allowed for levity, this would certainly be an instance of the oft-celebrated "birth of a meme".
- 67726e 10y agoTo be entirely objective, I have run into recruiters of that variety in my career. However I've also had plenty of recruiters that were able to pick up on one's deeper knowledge of a given concept and accept that as correct, even if it wasn't the "textbook answer" they were looking for.
- wingless 10y agoYou don't even have to give feedback in an interview. Just let them answer your question and if it's too detailed, write it down and look it up later. In fact, Google usually doesn't give back any feedback during or after their onsite interviews.
- nerdponx 10y agoI had something this happen to me in an interview. Miserable experience.
- smrtinsert 10y agoI get it, but do doctors really know what the size of mitochondria are? I can't think of anything any further from the realm of their day to day.
- pmiller2 10y agoSomeone specialized in genetics or mitochondrial disease might. Otherwise, I'd guess probably not.
- dekhn 10y agoeverybody who is a doctor aced intro to biology because they were premeds. That means they looked at plenty of cell bio pictures with mitochondria (properly scaled to the cell size). Doctors know a ton of random crap tangentially related to their jobs that they were forced to memorize.
- beanbragade 10y agoExperienced this more times than I wish to admit.
- animex 10y agoYay for Biology 10.
- rdiddly 10y agoPerfect analogy. And you just jogged a bad interview memory - "thanks a lot."
- clifanatic 10y agoExcept that, for some reason, medical professionals don't have to put up with this shit. But we do.