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Passing tests is not useless. It shows knowledge at the level of the test. I write tests for my code and when they fail I know I have to change something. If
by john_the_writer 2y ago
Passing tests is not useless. It shows knowledge at the level of the test.
I write tests for my code and when they fail I know I have to change something. If you're finishing a math test and not passing, then you don't have the skills to solve the problems in said test.
Tests are only useless when you ace them.
- socksy 2y agoBeyond that, there’s research[0] showing that testing humans actually increases their retention on that subject — we don’t just gives tests to kids to evaluate whether they successfully learned something. [0] https://gwern.net/doc/psychology/spaced-repetition/2006-roediger.pdf https://gwern.net/doc/psychology/spaced-repetition/2006-roed...