Or, you could just go: pick the first of the remaining choices the first time, then the second the next, then the third (if there happens to be one). Repeat as you go thru the test.
True randomness, or even pseudo- randomness, isn't required. The folks creating the test will have done all the randomizing necessary
2025-08-14 23:29:19
a kid who aces his college boards is probably pretty smart
Or clever enough that you can get a pretty high, at least way above chance, score on a multiple choice test if you eliminate the (2, sometimes 3) obviously wrong choices and then just guess at random. (Versus guessing at random among all 5. Or, worse, just leaving it blank.)
If asked how I know, I'll take the 5th, thank you.
2025-08-14 13:59:29
I think that the difference between "smart" and "clever" is mostly a matter of culture (if that's the right term). It's about what you are good at.
Anybody can be clever. But to be "smart" you have to do well at the things that are valued by the formal education system. Not necessarily be highly educated. But able to do those kinds of things.
For example, a great auto mechanic may have struggled to get thru high school. But can be very clever when it comes to figuring out how to fix, or enhance, something mechanical. The formal education system doesn't reward those kinds of abilities, so he very probably doesn't get labeled smart. But nobody would argue against clever.
In contrast, you can be a Nobel Prize winner in physics or chemistry but struggle to do simple cooking or basic home maintenance, let alone auto repair. Which makes you smart, brilliant even, but definitely not clever.
2025-08-13 23:04:26
sneering at someone's ignorance, particularly in the matter of taste, immediately marks one out as a member of the kind of "elites" that have understandably caused such vitriolic resentment.
I know a fair number of unarguably working class folks whose immediate reaction to Trump's redecorated Oval Office was immediate sneering.
2025-08-12 18:53:37
Looks like a relatively normal room. I'd describe it as grad student / working class (i. e. without a lot of excess cash), but with good taste.
In short, the inverse of excess money and no taste.
2025-08-10 12:29:13
Thank your lucky stars that Strump hasn't razed the White House and replaced it with a garish casino.
Yet. Gotta save a few big projects for the third term.
2025-08-09 22:16:36
It isn't just that the design is tasteless. It's that the execution is so poor. I think "sloppy" is the word I'm looking for.
It's like no competent craftsmen could be found to do it. Although most likely nobody looked, if they had there might have been a derth of people willing to work under any terms except cash in advance. A poor reputation can do that.
2025-08-09 19:15:17
"I know fully well how vulgar that is and I did it on purpose!'.
Well, we don't have to consider that. Trump has no clue how vulgar it is.
Or, you could just go: pick the first of the remaining choices the first time, then the second the next, then the third (if there happens to be one). Repeat as you go thru the test.
True randomness, or even pseudo- randomness, isn't required. The folks creating the test will have done all the randomizing necessary
a kid who aces his college boards is probably pretty smart
Or clever enough that you can get a pretty high, at least way above chance, score on a multiple choice test if you eliminate the (2, sometimes 3) obviously wrong choices and then just guess at random. (Versus guessing at random among all 5. Or, worse, just leaving it blank.)
If asked how I know, I'll take the 5th, thank you.
I think that the difference between "smart" and "clever" is mostly a matter of culture (if that's the right term). It's about what you are good at.
Anybody can be clever. But to be "smart" you have to do well at the things that are valued by the formal education system. Not necessarily be highly educated. But able to do those kinds of things.
For example, a great auto mechanic may have struggled to get thru high school. But can be very clever when it comes to figuring out how to fix, or enhance, something mechanical. The formal education system doesn't reward those kinds of abilities, so he very probably doesn't get labeled smart. But nobody would argue against clever.
In contrast, you can be a Nobel Prize winner in physics or chemistry but struggle to do simple cooking or basic home maintenance, let alone auto repair. Which makes you smart, brilliant even, but definitely not clever.
sneering at someone's ignorance, particularly in the matter of taste, immediately marks one out as a member of the kind of "elites" that have understandably caused such vitriolic resentment.
I know a fair number of unarguably working class folks whose immediate reaction to Trump's redecorated Oval Office was immediate sneering.
Looks like a relatively normal room. I'd describe it as grad student / working class (i. e. without a lot of excess cash), but with good taste.
In short, the inverse of excess money and no taste.
Thank your lucky stars that Strump hasn't razed the White House and replaced it with a garish casino.
Yet. Gotta save a few big projects for the third term.
It isn't just that the design is tasteless. It's that the execution is so poor. I think "sloppy" is the word I'm looking for.
It's like no competent craftsmen could be found to do it. Although most likely nobody looked, if they had there might have been a derth of people willing to work under any terms except cash in advance. A poor reputation can do that.
"I know fully well how vulgar that is and I did it on purpose!'.
Well, we don't have to consider that. Trump has no clue how vulgar it is.