I recently took a test for a nursing class (I am not a healthcare professional) for End of Life Nursing Care. I got one question wrong. This is completely test taking skills and the ability to figure out what unknown words mean.
Look, Angel, I know you've been out of the loop for a while, but I'm still evil. I don't do errands...unless they're evil errands.
Lilah ,'Just Rewards (2)'
Natter 55: It's the 55th Natter
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Sophia Brooks - Nov 21, 2007 7:33:35 am PST #3506 of 10001
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
§ ita § - Nov 21, 2007 7:34:59 am PST #3507 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I look at much of multiple choice test taking as acting class. Who do they want me to be? For the driver's license, I can image the pedantic careful and annoying driver they want, and be her for the purposes of the test.
And sometimes you have to work out who they think they are, which translates to how they want to trick you.
sumi - Nov 21, 2007 7:36:13 am PST #3508 of 10001
Art Crawl!!!
juliana - Nov 21, 2007 7:44:56 am PST #3509 of 10001
I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I miss them all tonight…
When I worked retail, there would be people lined up outside the door at Penney's for our 5 AM opening. It was crazy!
My Pier 1 management experience, let me show you it. I had people pounding on the door at 4:45 a.m. one Black Friday, and we didn't even open until 6. That was also the year of having to physically restrain a guy from coming in to our store on Christmas Eve as I was escorting our last customer out - an hour after we had closed. No one but no one needs overpriced crap from overseas that badly.
All hail online shopping.
askye - Nov 21, 2007 7:48:58 am PST #3510 of 10001
Thrive to spite them
I worked retail for several years, Black Friday and the day after Christmas are just nuts. Black Friday you have cranky parents, dragging their cranky spouses and kids around trying to buy crap. Or I'd end up with people trying to stealthy buy something for the person they are shopping with.
Then the day after Christmas you have people with opened merchandise and no receipt wanting a refund.
lisah - Nov 21, 2007 7:49:52 am PST #3511 of 10001
Punishingly Intricate
All hail online shopping.
And supporting your local, independent retailers!
Most years I do almost 100% of my xmas shopping at the stores in my 'hood.
Ginger - Nov 21, 2007 7:52:51 am PST #3512 of 10001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Like back in the cavemen days, a cavewoman might be surrounded by four cougars.
Statistically, she'd be most likely to survive if she picked the first cougar she thought of, and didn't waffle around thinking it might be cougar #3.
If skill at multiple choice tests had any relationship to life, I'd be living in a mansion with cabana boys.
tommyrot - Nov 21, 2007 7:53:58 am PST #3513 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Statistically, she'd be most likely to survive if she picked the first cougar she thought of, and didn't waffle around thinking it might be cougar #3.
I think this has been shown to not be true. (The thing about always going with your first answer.)
Ginger - Nov 21, 2007 7:55:58 am PST #3514 of 10001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
I had a psychology professor who designed his tests to teach people to pick their first answer. The tests had something like 300 questions, and the more you answered, the less each wrong answer counted off.
Aims - Nov 21, 2007 7:56:28 am PST #3515 of 10001
Shit's all sorts of different now.
Aimee, is that deal at kmart on Friday? or Thursday?
Cashmere, on Thursday.