Because sometimes people need to see the typical practices lampooned through another field's criteria before they can realize how far off the rails their own fi

Because sometimes people need to see the typical practices lampooned through another field's criteria before they can realize how far off the rails their own field has gotten. See all the people who always pop up in interviewing threads to say that this crap really is necessary in order to test for knowledge of "fundamentals" (defined as a small set of algorithm questions that candidates now memorize the answers to out of books with little or no actual understanding, since all they have to do is regurgitate them, not understand them) and to weed out people who "can't code" (defined as people who haven't memorized the set of stock answers from the books).