Have you ever done this while taking a multiple choice test?
Have you ever found a choice that was odd and incorrect, and it made you laugh a little?
Yes | 104 | |
No | 7 |
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Have you ever found a choice that was odd and incorrect, and it made you laugh a little?
Yes | 104 | |
No | 7 |
Some of my favorite teachers ever did this. Always made me chuckle.
Here's an example from U.S. History...
Who was the 'Boss' of the Tammany Hall political machine?
A. Rutherford B. Hayes
B. William Sherman
C. William Tweed
D. Tweety Bird
My personal favourite is the Tiger Special. Four answers: One correct, one a joke, and two specifically to highlight people who pretend to know what they are talking about. For instance:
The Haar measure is a non-zero measure, μ, on a sigma-ring S generated by compact subsets of a topological group that is logically compact, such that the measure is left-invariant (μ(χA)=μ(A) for all χ in G and A in S) or right-invariant (μ(Aχ)=μ(A) for all χ in G and A in S). In the commutative case these coincide, and on a compact group any left-invariant measure is also right-invariant, and vice-versa. Such a measure is unique up to a multiplicative constant. Name an example of this.
a, Lesbegue measure
b, Kronecker's lemma
c, Fenchel conjugate
d, Dogface
If people answer a or d, they're worth knowing because they're either clever or flippant. If they answer b or c, avoid them like the plague because they don't have the first clue about anything but will happily pretend that they do.
Yes, my teacher in a sociology class i took had many that made me laugh. He had at least 1 question per test that made me smile. It's funny when I knew the material it kind of made me relax.
Tons of times. Sometimes, I'm very tempted to just vote for the obvious wrong answer.