People are divided into pairs. Say A and B are in one pair. A gets a map of something that’s fairly complex but not too complex. For example, an apartment with a sufficiently large number of rooms. A’s task is to describe this to B. Once A and B are both satisfied with the description, B is asked questions about the place the map represented. Here are examples of questions that could be asked:
How many left-turns do you need to make to go from the master bed room to the kitchen?
Which one is the washroom nearest to the game room?
You are sitting in room1 and you want to go to room2. You have some guests sitting in room3 and you want to avoid them. Can you still manage to reach room2?
You can also just simulate the story about Y Combinator and Paul Graham. Show a new web-service to person A and ask him to describe it to person B. Finally ask B questions about the web service.
In both cases, the accuracy with which B answers the questions is directly proportional to the quality of A’s description.
I think two variants can be tried. In the first one, A does not know what questions will be given to B. In the second one, he does, but he is prohibited from directly including the answers as a part of his description.
How about this:
People are divided into pairs. Say A and B are in one pair. A gets a map of something that’s fairly complex but not too complex. For example, an apartment with a sufficiently large number of rooms. A’s task is to describe this to B. Once A and B are both satisfied with the description, B is asked questions about the place the map represented. Here are examples of questions that could be asked:
How many left-turns do you need to make to go from the master bed room to the kitchen?
Which one is the washroom nearest to the game room?
You are sitting in room1 and you want to go to room2. You have some guests sitting in room3 and you want to avoid them. Can you still manage to reach room2?
You can also just simulate the story about Y Combinator and Paul Graham. Show a new web-service to person A and ask him to describe it to person B. Finally ask B questions about the web service.
In both cases, the accuracy with which B answers the questions is directly proportional to the quality of A’s description.
I think two variants can be tried. In the first one, A does not know what questions will be given to B. In the second one, he does, but he is prohibited from directly including the answers as a part of his description.