[dan-robertson]

What’s the point of a question like this? Somewhere someone will have written down something they want teachers to be able to do and that will have been translated into a question like this. Was the original requirement bad or the translation into the question? What kind of system would lead to a better question?

[Wowfunhappy]

I believe the standard is just "elementary school teachers should be able to read and interpret a table of data".

[jdietrich]

>What’s the point of a question like this?

To filter out people with the capacity and inclination to engage in critical thinking, because those people will not last as teachers.

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/NMoLJuDJEms7Ku9XS/guessing-t...