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army1987 comments on An attempt at a short no-prerequisite test for programming inclination - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: malcolmocean 30 June 2013 11:24:41AM 2 points [-]

I'm forced to remind myself that that test was not actually designed to be a literacy test.

It includes riddles/illusions (Paris in the the spring for example), irrelevant terminology ("bisect"?) and unnecessary arbitrary things like knowing the order of the letters in the alphabet. If you became literate chiefly by reading...

Comment author: [deleted] 02 July 2013 02:29:45AM 1 point [-]

It includes riddles/illusions ([redacted] for example)

You might want to rot13 that, in case people are considering taking the test themselves.