the boy with the shoes - yet again, something about the way he writes totally intrigues me and it has also fired up my own brain to start thinking again aside from the monotonous daily grind of accounting and work besides I'm quite smart, I should use this brain for something else besides being annoyed with several clients. I also found myself not talking about really strange smart things because the average bear doesn't seem to get it like when I was in college and most of my friends really did not get the whole linguistics-old english concept, they'd ask me about my classes, I'd start to tell them and their eyes would glaze over - didn't get it and I find myself doing that again which is why the boy with the shoes intrigues me, he's smart, probably smarter than me although that's yet to be tested. Anyways he has a test - Sanipath Test
"You are a teacher with two pupils. They are both given a one problem test. Pupil A doesn’t even look at the question, he just rolls dice or something random and comes up with an answer, but he happens to get lucky and answers completely correctly. Pupil B works furiously on the problem, possibly spending all day thinking about it, testing theories and such, and after much work and struggle he comes up with an answer that’s “close”, but, in the end, fundamentally wrong. The question for you is: Knowing all of this (I.e. Taking into account how they got their answers is ok), what grades do you give the two students (use a scale from 0 - 100)?"
Now the first thing I saw when I read this was you are a teacher with two pupils - so I have two eyes, normal right? Then as I'm reading through it, I realize two pupils = two students. And now for my answers: Pupil A - 100% / Pupil B - 95%. Student A (sorry still stuck on the two eyes concept, they've gotta be students) = Student A got it right, it doesn't matter how he got the answer - he was right, sometimes the answer just pops into your head without any explanation of how it gets to that point. Student B - he tried, he got close, he tested his theories and sometimes close is better than wrong besides getting close means you really wanted it and might get you something you were totally not expecting.
I'd post this answers on his blog but no comments allowed. What do you think? Am I way off base on the two pupils thing?
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