Number of words: 108 Before you pose any question to a job applicant, you ought to ask yourself two questions: Unless your response to (at least) one of the two questions is yes, there’s no point in asking the question. The question may tell you something about the candidate, but what it tells you is … Read more
Number of words: 392 People aren’t good at dealing with the uncertainties or missing information in a puzzle. Here’s a neat little example that’s been tested in psychological studies and widely discussed. You’ve got four cards on the table. Each card has a letter on one side and a number on the other side. Naturally,you … Read more
Number of words: 168 You know, of course, that water holds up a fish that is placed in it. Well, here is a problem. Suppose we have a bucket which is partly full of water. We place the bucket on the scales and find that with the water in it, it weighs exactly 45 pounds. … Read more
Number of words: 2,145 QUESTIONS Elephant in boat strategy. So that they can’t be pushed in accidentally Because they are hung vertically Clockwise – it’s easier for right handed people. Because there is a separate reverse hot water line from the heater to the farthest tap. Replace it with Gems. Basically sprays and a … Read more
Number of words: 209 Many of these are classic logic puzzles. Other interview questions are intended to help assign candidates to specific positions. Some of the questions that outsiders find most eccentric (Which of the fifty states would you remove? Which way should a key turn in a car door?) fall into thiscategory. They test … Read more
Number of words: 687 A crisis came when software products got too big for one person to handle. MS-DOS 1.0 was largely designed, coded, compiled, and debugged by one auteur, Tim Paterson. As software products became more complex, dividing the labor between two or more developers became necessary. That was easier said than done. Chunks … Read more
Number of words: 267 The story now turns to Lewis Terman’s son, Frederick. You will see the name “Terman” all over Stanford’s buildings today. It is mostly Frederick who is being immortalized. The younger Terman, an electrical engineer, was a professor, a dean, and later the acting president of Stanford. As much as anyone, he … Read more
Number of words: 407 One of the reasons for the popularity of Terman’s test was that the scores were expressed as a catchy number — the intelligence quotient, or IQ. Psychologist William Stern had earlier proposed dividing a child’s “mental age” by the chronological age to get a “mental quotient” that would tell how smart … Read more
Number of words: 246 Feeling an outsider because of his intellect, Terman grew to be fascinated by the whole idea of intelligence and how it might be measured. After drifting through careers and ending up on the West Coast, Terman took a teaching job at Stanford in 1910. Founded only nineteen years earlier, Leland Stanford’s … Read more
Number of words: 438 Human resources experts categorize interview questions with terms such as “traditional” and “behavioral.” Traditional questions include the old standards that almost any American job seeker knows by heart. Where do you see yourself in five years? What do you do on your day off? What’s the last book you’ve read? What … Read more
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