capoccia's Journal: RE: question 20 from NCEE quiz

This is a follow-up to my Illiterate Financially? journal entry.

Many of you commented that question 20 was poorly worded. I read too fast and was also confused.

So I wrote the NCEE a letter through their online form December 17. I was hoping to post some reply from them, but I haven't recieved one yet and probably won't.

Hopefully they read it and they make some changes to future surveys.

I believe question 20 in your recent survey (http://www.ncee.net/cel/test/) may have an unexpectedly high error rate because it is phrased confusingly.

I thought it was just me that was confused and misread the question, but it appears others read the question wrong too.

http://slashdot.org/~capoccia/journal/55429

You should consider creating contrapositive versions of all your questions and rotating which version is asked to account for this type of error.

No Kidding...

[daoine]

I just took it, and KNOWING that question 20 was screwy I *STILL* read it wrong. It's too bad, it was the only one I got wrong.