I think the most damaging thing I learned in school was that the “right answer” would always be something I had been specifically taught that didn’t require all that much thinking for myself. Wtf. I consciously unlearned it in college, but subconsciously I’m still not sure...https://twitter.com/William_Blake/status/1203348802679083008 …
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Divia Eden Retweeted Robin Hanson
This is where he loses me. Maybe the deal is that I went to a good school (I did). But my experience of k-12 was that the kids who did well on the tests pretty much all understood the material they were being tested on. Anyone else?https://twitter.com/robinhanson/status/1203380537408327682?s=20 …
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Replying to @diviacaroline
It's a bit of both. A TON of tests are also reasoning-skills based. You can't hack them if you know nothing, but you can pass a lot of tests using tenuous knowledge that more rigorous tests would catch. Multiple choice is often an exercise in "which one is the most different"?
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I had very few multiple choice tests in school!
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W mostly had to write essays for history tests, and you could kind of BS it, but IME also kind of not. And there wasn’t a good way to do well on the math tests or physics tests without knowing how to do the problems. I think my update is my k-12 school had good tests.
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That's how it ought to be done, but that's the exception, not the norm in my experience. I was very much an outlier when I opted against multiple choice on tests at my school.
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Went to middling quality public schools—multiple choice was the norm in most classes, and even more so in advanced classes (honors, AP, etc.) that had to teach a state/nationally designed curriculum
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