[hn_throwaway_99]

This answer made me unreasonably angry. Apparently to become a teacher in New York, you're not allowed to use your brain. "We are not told any information about categories being weighted and therefore we cannot pay special attention to the low safety score." means exactly the following when you're talking about a playground: "Congratulations, all the kids love this creative, high quality playground! Unfortunately they're all at the hospital."

I agree with another commenter, you should name and shame, this is beyond stupid and deserves to be called out as the idiocy it is.

[Wowfunhappy]

> I agree with another commenter, you should name and shame, this is beyond stupid and deserves to be called out as the idiocy it is.

You do you want me to name, exactly?

The tests are made by Pearson Education. The website for the certification tests is https://www.nystce.nesinc.com/.

[hn_throwaway_99]

Yep, that was exactly what I meant. Thanks a lot for posting!

[gopher_space]

All of the federal "can you walk and chew gum" hiring tests are booby-trapped like this. The highest tier of scores go to the people who follow instructions literally and without regard to context, and who never apply their own moral judgment.

In the above example the last company is clearly sacrificing lives to get work done.

[dwattttt]

> "Congratulations, all the kids love this creative, high quality playground! Unfortunately they're all at the hospital."

The company even optimised the number of children who can experience it! A child in the hospital is one who got to use the playground, _and_ one who isn't hogging it, stopping others from experiencing it.

[ang_cire]

> "Congratulations, all the kids love this creative, high quality playground! Unfortunately they're all at the hospital."

I absolutely love this! xD