If You Needed to Pass an Exam to Vote
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And 13 is unclear if it's strictly 'more than' or 'more than or equal'
It says "more than"
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The founding fathers basically solved this issue through the electoral college, you’re not supposed to be voting for the president, you’re supposed to be voting for the people who will elect the president. But that’s all gone to shit, proving Hamilton’s warnings about populism extremely prescient.
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That is the one fear, especially considering... a now controlling amount of politicians can't accept basic facts... so we'd see questions like "is climate change real", "how old is the earth".
The test will ask how old the Earth is. Any answer over 6000 years or so will be marked false.
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Cross 1, so it's 0
1 is a digit in the number below
0 is not one million
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1 is a digit in the number below
0 is not one million
0 is below 1 million
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Who gets to design the test, though?
AI.
Fight me.
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A perfectly designed test - ambiguous enough that anyone subjected to it can be failed.
I still don't know what #11 is "supposed" to be.
You got enough answers but here's how you deny someone the right to vote: the question really means you need to make the number 1000000 exact as that is the number "below" the question. Not fewer, physically below.
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I think it's supposed to say "Cross out the digit necessary", so one digit, in which case cross out the 1 because there's enough 0's that crossing out one 0 isn't enough.
It's 10 that has me confused. Is it asking for the last letter of the first word that starts with 'L' in that sentence? It doesn't actually specify.
Yeah, in the most pedantic sense, the correct answer is "a", for "Louisiana"
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I wonder if it would change anything if instead of a quiz you just like handed people a printout of like a summary of how government works from Wikipedia. Like, maybe convert some people who think the president makes laws.
It would probably still be corrupted by conservatives, sadly.
We kind of do that with ballot measures. Wel end up with a big fight over the text that gets put on the ballot. And people still leave the voting booth having completely crazy ideas about what some of them do.
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0 is below 1 million
Read my comment again.
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You got enough answers but here's how you deny someone the right to vote: the question really means you need to make the number 1000000 exact as that is the number "below" the question. Not fewer, physically below.
Oh good, now we have three completely different answers
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That's on purpose - white skin? it can be either one; otherwise both are wrong.
You actually weren't subjected to literacy tests "if your grandfather was eligible to vote", ie your grandfather was a white citizen.
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I think it's supposed to say "Cross out the digit necessary", so one digit, in which case cross out the 1 because there's enough 0's that crossing out one 0 isn't enough.
It's 10 that has me confused. Is it asking for the last letter of the first word that starts with 'L' in that sentence? It doesn't actually specify.
I would assume each question is independent of the others, so probably a T for 'last'
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And you still think a test like that, applied to all, would be a good idea?
I never said tests should be like that.
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Yes I did watch a vid about those tests lately. The issue there was that whites did not have to take them. If everyone has to take tests and they are designed sanely that should not be an issue.
The history of our country has shown that so long as people are involved, corruption can occur. There is no test that can be written so sanely that only "the right people" pass.
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And the approved voters just happened to be from the 50 people who controlled the testing.
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This is an example of the gotcha this test did, you can read the question two different ways. Making the number below the question one million, or making the number itself below one million.
Oh, Jesus. I read "below" to mean it was referring to the number directly "below" the instructions. I didn't even consider that it could be read another way. Fuck everything about that test.
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Who gets to design the test, though?
I think it should be a coin flip. Heads or tails. You lose whichever way it lands. That'll keep the riffraff out.
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I would assume each question is independent of the others, so probably a T for 'last'
That would be my guess too, but tbh that's the only question I don't feel confident about
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I'd second this interpretation... least based on my interpretation of "cross out THE NUMBER".
0 is a number.
