> Then we need a better test, but the gamification and badgering isn’t effective imo. The educational field has been trying to do create tests that cannot be g

> Then we need a better test, but the gamification and badgering isn’t effective imo. The educational field has been trying to do create tests that cannot be gamed for over a century. The problem is that "gamification" is just a form a studying. In general, folks want tests to have the following properties. 1. Consistency of measurement across test-takers for a defined set of skills 2. Relatively short time-bounds (few hours). In job hiring, the approach that tries to sacrifice (2) is contract-to-hire, just let the person do the work for a month! Turns out that people with in-demand skills aren't super interested in this. Companies with more than a handful of engineers don't want to sacrifice (1) both out of fear of lowering the hiring bar too and because it may open them to discrimination lawsuits. Once you have both of these constraints the number of "test permutations" (along with their relevant evaluative criteria) become limited enough that people can study them and thus gamification begins.