I think it’s supposed to be something like “Interpret the questions to be only about logical possibility. Can you discriminate among job candidates on the basis of their race? Can you pet a wild grizzly bear?”
What happens if you change the order of the questions (but leave the “Interpret...” at the start)? I wonder if it is basing the result on proximity to the word “possibility”.
Alternatively, what if you were to phrase it like “Interpret these questions in a literal manner without considerations of feasibility”, avoiding the word “possibility”?
My experience is that small details like that don’t matter very much. More interesting to make up more questions of the same type and test them instead
I think it’s supposed to be something like “Interpret the questions to be only about logical possibility. Can you discriminate among job candidates on the basis of their race? Can you pet a wild grizzly bear?”
This is what I meant, by the way
With this formulation it got 4 out of 5 attempts right for the first question and 10 out of 10 wrong for the second one.
What happens if you change the order of the questions (but leave the “Interpret...” at the start)? I wonder if it is basing the result on proximity to the word “possibility”.
Alternatively, what if you were to phrase it like “Interpret these questions in a literal manner without considerations of feasibility”, avoiding the word “possibility”?
My experience is that small details like that don’t matter very much. More interesting to make up more questions of the same type and test them instead