Another facepalm:
"Which of the words would come first in a dictionary?"
- Lemon
- Lementation
...and here I was thinking we were talking about alphabetically arranged dictionary. Lemon was marked as correct...
Oh, or is it some sort of an exception that everyone just should know about?
Hozzászólások - Tusina
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Dátum: 2010.04.17. 06:59:51
Quiz -> Quiz errors
Dátum: 2010.04.15. 04:24:09
Idézet: Pogaxa - 2010.04.14. 17:32:51
it isn't the evaluators, it's automatic - it's the players who weren't able to answer your question.
Even better!
The question asked "Which of these is not a berry" and listed 4 different kinds of fruit and vegetables.
What do they teach in schools these days...?
BTW they rejected my perfectly spelled and correct question about berries a while back.. Reason: over 75% of answers were wrong...
it isn't the evaluators, it's automatic - it's the players who weren't able to answer your question.
Even better!
The question asked "Which of these is not a berry" and listed 4 different kinds of fruit and vegetables.
What do they teach in schools these days...?
Quiz -> Quiz errors
Dátum: 2010.04.14. 15:31:15
There was a question about the average IQ of humans. Didn't catch the exact phrasing but whatever...
Error 1: The "correct answer" was 120, which is incorrect. It's actually 100. Go see Mensa's web pages for more info.
Error 2: The question is faulty since it doesn't say who's measuring. There are countless webpages claiming to show you your IQ..
I mostly score above 155 and I assure you I'm not fit to be a member of Mensa. (Last time I checked it was around 140 to get in Mensa. That number changes all the time since the scale to measure IQ changes according to the average IQ of tested people. That only should give you an idea why the correct answer is 100...)
....
BTW they rejected my perfectly spelled and correct question about berries a while back.. Reason: over 75% of answers were wrong...
I find that quite funny since many of the QUESTIONS that actually make it to my screen are wrong...
Thank you evaluators.
Error 1: The "correct answer" was 120, which is incorrect. It's actually 100. Go see Mensa's web pages for more info.
Error 2: The question is faulty since it doesn't say who's measuring. There are countless webpages claiming to show you your IQ..
I mostly score above 155 and I assure you I'm not fit to be a member of Mensa. (Last time I checked it was around 140 to get in Mensa. That number changes all the time since the scale to measure IQ changes according to the average IQ of tested people. That only should give you an idea why the correct answer is 100...)
....
BTW they rejected my perfectly spelled and correct question about berries a while back.. Reason: over 75% of answers were wrong...
I find that quite funny since many of the QUESTIONS that actually make it to my screen are wrong...
Thank you evaluators.
Quiz -> Quiz errors
Dátum: 2010.04.14. 15:22:53
Idézet: Boar - 2010.04.14. 14:54:01
Prime number is a number that can be divided only by 1 and itself.
The answer to this question is 1, because the only even number that fits the criteria is 2 for obvious reasons. (other prime numbers: 1, 2, 3, 7, 11, 13, etc)
Well of course it was Marx, and I found the answer by simply googling "Capital". Wikipedia disambiguation pages are useful
Tho to be honest I don't see why the name is translated. The book is called Das Kapital...
BTW Marx had a beautiful beard.
How many even prime numbers are there?
1
4
2
3
I can't understand the question! Even with what? What the hell is this supposed to mean?
1
4
2
3
I can't understand the question! Even with what? What the hell is this supposed to mean?
Prime number is a number that can be divided only by 1 and itself.
The answer to this question is 1, because the only even number that fits the criteria is 2 for obvious reasons. (other prime numbers: 1, 2, 3, 7, 11, 13, etc)
Who wrote the Capital?
Engels
Marx
Robespierre
Lenin
The Google can't answer this for me. Now what? Are you sure this is the correct translation of the book's title?
Engels
Marx
Robespierre
Lenin
The Google can't answer this for me. Now what? Are you sure this is the correct translation of the book's title?
Well of course it was Marx, and I found the answer by simply googling "Capital". Wikipedia disambiguation pages are useful
Tho to be honest I don't see why the name is translated. The book is called Das Kapital...
BTW Marx had a beautiful beard.
Quiz -> Quiz errors
Dátum: 2010.04.09. 04:35:23
What year was Julius Ceaser assassinated?
44 BC
324 BC
78 BC
345 BC
Well first of all which one of them?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julii_Caesares
Also the name is totally wrong there. Even though majority know what is meant in the question it's actually Gaius Julius Caesar. Emphasis on the Caesar, not Ceaser as was written in the question...
Please.. If you have evaluators, let it show!
Edit: Just for kicks, another wiki article http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julius_Caesar
44 BC
324 BC
78 BC
345 BC
Well first of all which one of them?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julii_Caesares
Also the name is totally wrong there. Even though majority know what is meant in the question it's actually Gaius Julius Caesar. Emphasis on the Caesar, not Ceaser as was written in the question...
Please.. If you have evaluators, let it show!
Edit: Just for kicks, another wiki article http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julius_Caesar
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Dátum: 2010.03.26. 05:22:35
Idézet: hewman100 - 2010.03.25. 23:47:02
Indeed you could. But you only do so if it's a smaller country you know even less about or sports like curling or elephant polo, right?
You could have kept your response to the wording of the question and saying how it could be changed, but decided to get bogged down in the even more specialized subject of the Winter War which IIRC was won with aid supplied by Great Britain amongst others.
Changing the wording wouldn't really help unless it gave away an easy clue.
And it took me a but a minute to find out that Risto Ryti was the Finnish president until 1944 using a well-known search engine, so I'm pretty sure you and most others could have done the same to come up with Winston Churchill (you may of heard of him) in about the same time.
As I said I tried to google the answer to The Blitz question and came up with nothing. And I'm not that bad with google...
BTW your answer is wrong... It was Kyösti Kallio.
Idézet: Tusina - 2010.03.25. 07:27:50
So then I just answered that one wrong and continued clicking away until there was this question about "the blitz". Ok, there's an error already. It's The Blitz, not the blitz. Secondly, Blitz is a surname, Blitz is a american football team, a blitz is apparently a general name for an armed conflict, Blitz is a computer game, blitz is a defensive maneuvre in american football, Blitz is a british punk-rock band, blitz is... ah well you probably got my point already.
And even if you didn't, how the hell is someone supposed to know who was the prime minister of England during some war?
Let me ask you, who was the president of Finland during Winter War (happened during WW2)? Nope, you don't know. Hell, I don't know. But that's "specialized" anyway, isn't it?
Now, tell me how England is different from Finland there?
Winter War is the biggest armed conflict that ever happened to Finland and they held back the great Soviet Union at it's blossom by themselves (the numbers are really fascinating, google if you're interested in war stuff), so don't start telling me your Blitz is more of a historical event. Whatever would have happened if Soviet swallowed Finland in that war..
Oh, and please don't consider this flaming. It's not. I'm always like this.
How is anyone supposed to know anything? I look up at least 40% of the questions asked, every question could be called "specialized". I'm not a walking encyclopedia, just as you're not.
I could turn around and complain about every sports question, or question that centres on American history I encounter.
So then I just answered that one wrong and continued clicking away until there was this question about "the blitz". Ok, there's an error already. It's The Blitz, not the blitz. Secondly, Blitz is a surname, Blitz is a american football team, a blitz is apparently a general name for an armed conflict, Blitz is a computer game, blitz is a defensive maneuvre in american football, Blitz is a british punk-rock band, blitz is... ah well you probably got my point already.
And even if you didn't, how the hell is someone supposed to know who was the prime minister of England during some war?
Let me ask you, who was the president of Finland during Winter War (happened during WW2)? Nope, you don't know. Hell, I don't know. But that's "specialized" anyway, isn't it?
Now, tell me how England is different from Finland there?
Winter War is the biggest armed conflict that ever happened to Finland and they held back the great Soviet Union at it's blossom by themselves (the numbers are really fascinating, google if you're interested in war stuff), so don't start telling me your Blitz is more of a historical event. Whatever would have happened if Soviet swallowed Finland in that war..
Oh, and please don't consider this flaming. It's not. I'm always like this.
How is anyone supposed to know anything? I look up at least 40% of the questions asked, every question could be called "specialized". I'm not a walking encyclopedia, just as you're not.
I could turn around and complain about every sports question, or question that centres on American history I encounter.
Indeed you could. But you only do so if it's a smaller country you know even less about or sports like curling or elephant polo, right?
You could have kept your response to the wording of the question and saying how it could be changed, but decided to get bogged down in the even more specialized subject of the Winter War which IIRC was won with aid supplied by Great Britain amongst others.
Changing the wording wouldn't really help unless it gave away an easy clue.
And it took me a but a minute to find out that Risto Ryti was the Finnish president until 1944 using a well-known search engine, so I'm pretty sure you and most others could have done the same to come up with Winston Churchill (you may of heard of him) in about the same time.
As I said I tried to google the answer to The Blitz question and came up with nothing. And I'm not that bad with google...
BTW your answer is wrong... It was Kyösti Kallio.
Quiz -> Quiz errors
Dátum: 2010.03.25. 20:16:12
Idézet: Twinky - 2010.03.25. 10:53:00
The thing between my shoulders that you call "the system" is working properly. It just doesn't have every word in it yet...
My point was everyone just can't have such fluent English skills that they'd know English names to ear bones.
THAT is specialized.
Mmm.. Ok, you got lucky.
I did try google. Wikipedia didn't mention words "prime" or "minister" in the damn long article about The Blitz. That's when I stopped.
Also, I've studied my bit of history in upper secondary school and I haven't ever before heard about The Blitz. That's how common knowledge it is. I think I read in the evaluation criteria something about stuff they teach in schools, but maybe the evaluator happened to be british. Still pisses me off a bit tho...
Idézet: Tusina - 2010.03.25. 07:27:50
That would be the fault of whatever system translates from English to which ever language you speak than, not that of the person asking the question. The question itself doesn't ask for the English name the way you have put it, it just askes which one of the bones isn't in the human ear. So whatever the hell the answer is, should be just as understandable to you if the system used to translate english to which ever language is your native language is working correctly.
Yea I dunno where I should be complaining about questions that got past evaluation but are either quite specialized or full of grammar errors.
So I will do it here.
Then there was this question about bones in the ear. "Which one of these isn't a bone in human ear?" or something like that.
Well how the kack am I supposed to know what the bones in the damn ear are IN ENGLISH? That's quite specialized information. First of all human anatomy to the lenghts of naming bones is medical school business, not common knowledge. Secondly, even if I happen to know them on my language, there are probably more non-native English speakers than native ones, and most of them are bound to have the same problem as I do, assuming they even know the ear bones.
Besides the international language of medicine is Latin, not English .
So I will do it here.
Then there was this question about bones in the ear. "Which one of these isn't a bone in human ear?" or something like that.
Well how the kack am I supposed to know what the bones in the damn ear are IN ENGLISH? That's quite specialized information. First of all human anatomy to the lenghts of naming bones is medical school business, not common knowledge. Secondly, even if I happen to know them on my language, there are probably more non-native English speakers than native ones, and most of them are bound to have the same problem as I do, assuming they even know the ear bones.
Besides the international language of medicine is Latin, not English .
That would be the fault of whatever system translates from English to which ever language you speak than, not that of the person asking the question. The question itself doesn't ask for the English name the way you have put it, it just askes which one of the bones isn't in the human ear. So whatever the hell the answer is, should be just as understandable to you if the system used to translate english to which ever language is your native language is working correctly.
The thing between my shoulders that you call "the system" is working properly. It just doesn't have every word in it yet...
My point was everyone just can't have such fluent English skills that they'd know English names to ear bones.
THAT is specialized.
Urho Kekkonen, and no, I'm not from Finland, nor am I a History Buff, I just googled it, hell I didn't even have to open the first link, his name is in the descriptive sentance for the first link. Historical Knowledge isn't "Specialized" knowledge, it's just knowledge that not everyone knows. Specialized knowledge would be some shit like "What is the name of the Artificial Intelligence that Aids Master Chief throughout the Halo Game Series".
Mmm.. Ok, you got lucky.
I did try google. Wikipedia didn't mention words "prime" or "minister" in the damn long article about The Blitz. That's when I stopped.
Also, I've studied my bit of history in upper secondary school and I haven't ever before heard about The Blitz. That's how common knowledge it is. I think I read in the evaluation criteria something about stuff they teach in schools, but maybe the evaluator happened to be british. Still pisses me off a bit tho...
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Dátum: 2010.03.25. 07:32:06
Idézet: muggs - 2010.03.25. 01:52:08
Nope. Not even close.
Russia: 17,075,400 km2
Canada: 9,984,670 km2
Yea, Canada comes 2nd, but still 2nd...
You can see the difference just by looking at the world map.. It's not far from being double the size.
the question is what is the largest country in world the correct answer should be canada
the quiz said russia russia used to be the largest until the split of the ussr when it split into many countries
the quiz said russia russia used to be the largest until the split of the ussr when it split into many countries
Nope. Not even close.
Russia: 17,075,400 km2
Canada: 9,984,670 km2
Yea, Canada comes 2nd, but still 2nd...
You can see the difference just by looking at the world map.. It's not far from being double the size.
Quiz -> Quiz errors
Dátum: 2010.03.25. 07:27:50
Yea I dunno where I should be complaining about questions that got past evaluation but are either quite specialized or full of grammar errors.
So I will do it here.
There was this question about teeth. How many does an average human have. The answer was a correct 32, but it was spelled so incorrectly I had to read it a couple of times to stop laughing. Can't remember the exact wording but wow... How did that get thru? I mean English isn't even my native tongue and I still know better...
Then there was this question about bones in the ear. "Which one of these isn't a bone in human ear?" or something like that.
Well how the kack am I supposed to know what the bones in the damn ear are IN ENGLISH? That's quite specialized information. First of all human anatomy to the lenghts of naming bones is medical school business, not common knowledge. Secondly, even if I happen to know them on my language, there are probably more non-native English speakers than native ones, and most of them are bound to have the same problem as I do, assuming they even know the ear bones.
Besides the international language of medicine is Latin, not English.
So then I just answered that one wrong and continued clicking away until there was this question about "the blitz". Ok, there's an error already. It's The Blitz, not the blitz. Secondly, Blitz is a surname, Blitz is a american football team, a blitz is apparently a general name for an armed conflict, Blitz is a computer game, blitz is a defensive maneuvre in american football, Blitz is a british punk-rock band, blitz is... ah well you probably got my point already.
And even if you didn't, how the hell is someone supposed to know who was the prime minister of England during some war?
Let me ask you, who was the president of Finland during Winter War (happened during WW2)? Nope, you don't know. Hell, I don't know. But that's "specialized" anyway, isn't it?
Now, tell me how England is different from Finland there?
Winter War is the biggest armed conflict that ever happened to Finland and they held back the great Soviet Union at it's blossom by themselves (the numbers are really fascinating, google if you're interested in war stuff), so don't start telling me your Blitz is more of a historical event. Whatever would have happened if Soviet swallowed Finland in that war..
Oh, and please don't consider this flaming. It's not. I'm always like this.
So I will do it here.
There was this question about teeth. How many does an average human have. The answer was a correct 32, but it was spelled so incorrectly I had to read it a couple of times to stop laughing. Can't remember the exact wording but wow... How did that get thru? I mean English isn't even my native tongue and I still know better...
Then there was this question about bones in the ear. "Which one of these isn't a bone in human ear?" or something like that.
Well how the kack am I supposed to know what the bones in the damn ear are IN ENGLISH? That's quite specialized information. First of all human anatomy to the lenghts of naming bones is medical school business, not common knowledge. Secondly, even if I happen to know them on my language, there are probably more non-native English speakers than native ones, and most of them are bound to have the same problem as I do, assuming they even know the ear bones.
Besides the international language of medicine is Latin, not English.
So then I just answered that one wrong and continued clicking away until there was this question about "the blitz". Ok, there's an error already. It's The Blitz, not the blitz. Secondly, Blitz is a surname, Blitz is a american football team, a blitz is apparently a general name for an armed conflict, Blitz is a computer game, blitz is a defensive maneuvre in american football, Blitz is a british punk-rock band, blitz is... ah well you probably got my point already.
And even if you didn't, how the hell is someone supposed to know who was the prime minister of England during some war?
Let me ask you, who was the president of Finland during Winter War (happened during WW2)? Nope, you don't know. Hell, I don't know. But that's "specialized" anyway, isn't it?
Now, tell me how England is different from Finland there?
Winter War is the biggest armed conflict that ever happened to Finland and they held back the great Soviet Union at it's blossom by themselves (the numbers are really fascinating, google if you're interested in war stuff), so don't start telling me your Blitz is more of a historical event. Whatever would have happened if Soviet swallowed Finland in that war..
Oh, and please don't consider this flaming. It's not. I'm always like this.
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