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I wonder how they take into account the kind of people who take a test like this are likely to have a good vocabulary. I suppose that might not be true but I d
by te_platt 7y ago
I wonder how they take into account the kind of people who take a test like this are likely to have a good vocabulary. I suppose that might not be true but I don't think I'd do something similar for a test that measured something along the lines of matching faces to pop musicians.
- merpnderp 7y agoI bet the only truly important correlation is how many books a person has read. Too bad they didn’t ask that. “Would you say you’ve read less than 10, less than 100, less than 1000, or all the books ever?”
- RandomBacon 7y agoI've read probably around 500 books in my life (and I'm 30), and I only got 70% with zero false positives. I think it depends on the type of books one reads, not quantity.
- animal531 7y agoIt makes me sad that between your and the parent comment we take 100, 500 and 1000 to be a lot of books to have read in a lifetime.
- aasasd 7y agoThe web lately did more for my dictionary than books, since I'm pretty much living on it while I'm getting my books in audio form. Audio helps with training to understand spoken language and improved the numbers of ‘read’ books a lot, but there's definitely the downside that unfamiliar words often fly by without impact.