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> I've done a few quizzes on the app now, and I don't get it. The questions feel very contrived, like someone had a quota to fill so just put whatever looked pl

by ac29 4y ago

> I've done a few quizzes on the app now, and I don't get it. The questions feel very contrived, like someone had a quota to fill so just put whatever looked plausible together. The picture of quizzes on their blog post was odd too. The idea of washing ground beef to make a hamburger is very weird. Sounds like the result of an algorithm that decided that washing {ingredient} was always the first step in any recipe.

Ekaros 4y ago
Washing ground meat? Just no.. There are few cases when it might make sense like when the skin has impurities like feathers or hair, but generally it is not recommended. I would throw instructions right out if they even suggest something going against modern basic foot safety.
- dymk 4y ago
  It’s why it’s important to wear close toed shoes in the kitchen
- mandarax8 4y ago
  It is a thing though, look up 'keema matar' for example. But it has nothing to do with cleaning the meat afaik, just a texture thing. Definitely not for making hamburgers though.
mizzao 4y ago
I'm 99% percent that washing ground beef is a wrong answer -- what we teach NOT to do is just as important as teaching what to do. Same way how it's more important to know the ways a startup fails than to see what the successful ones did. But if it isn't, mea culpa and I'll get that fixed.
- ac29 4y ago
  It wasnt a multiple choice question, it was a put the steps in order question. link: https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fee05fa3e-0cfd-40c0-9415-134965a41738_2175x941.png https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_pr...
  - mizzao 4y ago
    Oh, that was a version of the question we didn't ship where one or more of the choices was actually wrong, so you would have to leave it out of the final ordering. In that interface you didn't have to select all of the choices. In this case, the point was to teach users about common mistakes and remind them NOT to do that. If they added this to the sequence they'd get it wrong. We haven't shipped this (yet) for simplicity's sake, but may add it later. To reiterate, one of the goals of Parsnip is to teach people all the things they shouldn't do, rather than just the right answers. Thanks for reading that memo, by the way.

by ac29 4y ago

Ekaros 4y ago

Washing ground meat? Just no.. There are few cases when it might make sense like when the skin has impurities like feathers or hair, but generally it is not recommended. I would throw instructions right out if they even suggest something going against modern basic foot safety.

dymk 4y ago
It’s why it’s important to wear close toed shoes in the kitchen
mandarax8 4y ago
It is a thing though, look up 'keema matar' for example. But it has nothing to do with cleaning the meat afaik, just a texture thing. Definitely not for making hamburgers though.

mizzao 4y ago

I'm 99% percent that washing ground beef is a wrong answer -- what we teach NOT to do is just as important as teaching what to do. Same way how it's more important to know the ways a startup fails than to see what the successful ones did. But if it isn't, mea culpa and I'll get that fixed.

ac29 4y ago
It wasnt a multiple choice question, it was a put the steps in order question. link: https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fee05fa3e-0cfd-40c0-9415-134965a41738_2175x941.png https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_pr...
- mizzao 4y ago
  Oh, that was a version of the question we didn't ship where one or more of the choices was actually wrong, so you would have to leave it out of the final ordering. In that interface you didn't have to select all of the choices. In this case, the point was to teach users about common mistakes and remind them NOT to do that. If they added this to the sequence they'd get it wrong. We haven't shipped this (yet) for simplicity's sake, but may add it later. To reiterate, one of the goals of Parsnip is to teach people all the things they shouldn't do, rather than just the right answers. Thanks for reading that memo, by the way.