Friday, November 30, 2007

Data Literacy Test

here

I got a 26, making the assumption that "B-tree" was a "binary-tree". I did see a couple of terms I had never heard of like "elongated stream," "retroactive syn­apse," and "value chain". I actually hear the last one every day, but never heard it applied to a data type before. I thought about what it could be and imagined a double-linked-list type of affair, but I was only guessing so I said no.

At the end, after my score, I read this:

You are a pompous fraud. The terms "elongated stream," "retroactive syn­apse," and "value chain" don't refer to data types-I made them up. Please read the "Intellectual Honesty" section in Chapter 33, "Personal Character"!

(via)

UPDATE: I got 25. B-tree is a specific data-type.

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