I got 8 out of 10 too (underestimated the lakes by ten orders of magnitude >_> and my upper bound for the whale was close (I had revised it from 100 to 150 tons, still wasn’t enough)), without gaming the test in obvious ways.
Again, I found there’s a good deal of people in the comments who failed the test and instead of noticing how they could improve themselves, start making up excuses for how they andswered the right way anyway. 90% estimate means 90%, not “What you would answer if your pointy-haired boss asked you for a 90% estimate”!
I do hope that if I did fail a test I wouldn’t do that. Hopefully ranting in public about the stupidity of people who explain their failures away instead of acknowledging them will make me more likely to be honest :)
I got 8 out of 10 too (underestimated the lakes by ten orders of magnitude >_> and my upper bound for the whale was close (I had revised it from 100 to 150 tons, still wasn’t enough)), without gaming the test in obvious ways.
Again, I found there’s a good deal of people in the comments who failed the test and instead of noticing how they could improve themselves, start making up excuses for how they andswered the right way anyway. 90% estimate means 90%, not “What you would answer if your pointy-haired boss asked you for a 90% estimate”!
I do hope that if I did fail a test I wouldn’t do that. Hopefully ranting in public about the stupidity of people who explain their failures away instead of acknowledging them will make me more likely to be honest :)