My personal favourite is the Tiger Special. Four answers: One correct, one a joke, and two specifically to highlight people who pretend to know what they are talking about. For instance:
The Haar measure is a non-zero measure, μ, on a sigma-ring S generated by compact subsets of a topological group that is logically compact, such that the measure is left-invariant (μ(χA)=μ(A) for all χ in G and A in S) or right-invariant (μ(Aχ)=μ(A) for all χ in G and A in S). In the commutative case these coincide, and on a compact group any left-invariant measure is also right-invariant, and vice-versa. Such a measure is unique up to a multiplicative constant. Name an example of this.
If people answer a or d, they're worth knowing because they're either clever or flippant. If they answer b or c, avoid them like the plague because they don't have the first clue about anything but will happily pretend that they do.
Have you ever done this while taking a multiple choice test?
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My personal favourite is the Tiger Special. Four answers: One correct, one a joke, and two specifically to highlight people who pretend to know what they are talking about. For instance:
The Haar measure is a non-zero measure, μ, on a sigma-ring S generated by compact subsets of a topological group that is logically compact, such that the measure is left-invariant (μ(χA)=μ(A) for all χ in G and A in S) or right-invariant (μ(Aχ)=μ(A) for all χ in G and A in S). In the commutative case these coincide, and on a compact group any left-invariant measure is also right-invariant, and vice-versa. Such a measure is unique up to a multiplicative constant. Name an example of this.
a, Lesbegue measure
b, Kronecker's lemma
c, Fenchel conjugate
d, Dogface
If people answer a or d, they're worth knowing because they're either clever or flippant. If they answer b or c, avoid them like the plague because they don't have the first clue about anything but will happily pretend that they do.
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Captain_Kegstand
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What if, in this scenario, somebody were to answer "e, I have no damned idea"?