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Originally Posted by sailaway21
As you may have seen, apply your variation or deviation the wrong way and your answer will appear in the choices, and be wrong. Devious buggers.
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Devious: Yes. But that's actually proper multiple-guess design methodology. I trained as an instructor in the Army. For any given set of four possible answers (in this case): There should be one that's correct (or most correct), one that's close or looks like it could be correct (or may even be correct, but not as correct as another), and two that are "fairly" obviously wrong.
Multiple-guess test design is actually pretty tricky to get right.
Here's another little multiple-guess test factoid: Many poorly-designed multiple-guess tests have a flaw: A test writer, left to his or her own devices, and not knowing about this little quirk of human nature, will tend to make an above-average number of correct answers be "C." Thus was born the old saw "When in doubt: Choose ``C``." Doesn't work for tests designed by somebody who knows about it, tho
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Jim