IgnoranceI once was in a programming class where the task was "build a calculator". A student did one with buttons 1, 2, 3 all the way up to about 25 and then ran out of space on the screen. We've asked this before but liked it so much we're asking again: What's the best example of ignorance you've encountered?
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Scaryduck LIKES EGG, Thu 30 Aug 2012, 12:30)
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First proper examAround the age of ten my school class had it's first ever exam, with a pre-printed booklet of questions requiring an answer chosen from four options.
We were told to write our names in the space provided and then, in accordance with the typed instruction on the cover, not to turn over until told to do so.
Before long the instruction came and we all got started. One friend flew through the exam and finished well before the rest of us, confident that he had all the questions answered correctly.
When the results came back he had a shock. Turns out he thought you had to be told when to turn over *every* page and so had only completed sides 2 and 3.
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ForecastMonkey, Mon 3 Sep 2012, 11:31,
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My wife sat a scholarship exam when she was about 10.Apparently, she finished very quickly but then, about 15 minutes before the end of the exam, realised that there was more than one page of questions...
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