That post reminded me of the answer length heuristic for multiple choice tests—when in doubt, pick the longest sentence. This is because people who write tests are lazy, and will make answers short when they can. Reasonable answers have constraints, and so are on average longer than wrong test answers. This works for “homemade” tests, but of course the SAT people and their ilk have figured this out and put effort into their wrong answers.
That post reminded me of the answer length heuristic for multiple choice tests—when in doubt, pick the longest sentence. This is because people who write tests are lazy, and will make answers short when they can. Reasonable answers have constraints, and so are on average longer than wrong test answers. This works for “homemade” tests, but of course the SAT people and their ilk have figured this out and put effort into their wrong answers.