Collaborative Referee Test
Monday, May 4th, 2009Now open for business is a simple Collaborative Referee Test.
It works like this: it displays a random question. You pick and submit your answer, and it adds your answer in to the answer pool. Then, on the next page, the previous question is re-displayed with a count next to each answer showing how many people have picked that answer as the correct answer.
The test works like this because there is no official (public?) answer key to the referee test. So, there’s no “right” answer publicly available. The collaborative nature of the test is to try and point people in the right direction, as well as show which answers are most confusing.
The test itself is currently not designed to track which questions have been taken already. I’m definitely willing to take questions/comments/etc. and will improve the test based on input I receive. I think the top two requests so far are “right answers”, which may or may not be possible/reliable, and tracking for questions to ensure all are taken with minimal repeats.