Re: Quiz errors
1538. post - 2010.07.13. 05:21:06
What are the only two animals to have gills in the embrianic stage of life?
Frogs and Fish
Humans and Fish <- marked as correct
Fish & Snakes
Fish and Salamanders
1st its embryonic not embrianic.
2nd either human embryos do not have gills, or all mammals do. Actually the theory that postulates that human embryos have "gill like structures" postulates that bird and reptile embryos do as well. No biologist will claim that human embryos have gills.
So this question should never have been approved.
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Just answered this question and thankfully got it right because this post came up in the google search!
Human embryo's have gills? That's ridiculous... our DNA just does not produce gills...
However, there do seem to be some theories circulating (though I'm not sure how scientific it is and not just a little hyped up) such as the recapitulation theory. However, emphasis on the theory part- it isn't confirmed so I think it's ambiguous.
Not only that, there's a spelling mistake... Why hasn't someone corrected that at least if they deem the question to be good? It will put people off posting and trying to improve the quiz system in the game if they feel the questions aren't changed even if they do try and go out of their way.
It would be good to know if these questions are actually changed by an admin/evaluator or whatever who has access to the database and can delete these posts as the questions are corrected... That reduces the massive size of this topic and keeps us players happy. Alternatively, we could have a ticket system where a player can actually submit a question for either re-evaluation (requires 10 or more players to suggest re-evaluation) or suggest an alternative/alteration to the question. It sounds complicated, but if it was limited to something simple like:
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