Blocked beginners usually know how to ask their way out of blockers without standups. Another bigger problem with beginners though is the "creative" beginner.

Blocked beginners usually know how to ask their way out of blockers without standups. Another bigger problem with beginners though is the "creative" beginner. For those a stand up is a good place to catch "I just started writing a parser for X to solve problem Y" when there already is a company standard X-parser that the beginner doesn't know about.