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> Most tests are essentially nothing more than tests for the ability of rote memorization This a hundred times. If I had to hire someone for a job, I would rat
by squarefoot 4y ago
> Most tests are essentially nothing more than tests for the ability of rote memorization
This a hundred times. If I had to hire someone for a job, I would rather hire someone who knows how to search online the answer to a problem than the one who repeats the book word for word without knowing what he/she is talking about.
Exams are crap like that because better exams would require the use of one professor asking non trivial questions for each student, which costs money.
- barry-cotter 4y ago> If I had to hire someone for a job, I would rather hire someone who knows how to search online the answer to a problem than the one who repeats the book word for word without knowing what he/she is talking about. Do you have hiring authority or have you ever had it?
- davisoneee 4y agoHow do the candidates know _what_ to search? That's memorisation. How do you get creativity, how are candidates better able to combine idea together? By forming each idea into a memory 'chunk' that can be handled as a single concept, and then working to combine these chunks. If you hire people who can search google, then you get people who can search what is easily searchable, and who can create what has been previously posted online. If they somehow have 'internal' knowledge and capability, that's memory.
- squarefoot 4y agoI used the wrong terms to describe skills like creativity and problem solving beside pure superficial knowledge. Of course I wouldn't hire anyone who can only search Google.