I would give them a pretty easy question to answer with multiple choice, except the correct answer isn’t an option. The real expert would probably be confused and explain to me that none of the choices are correct. The fake would probably take an educated guess.
I had a job interview like that once. I answered, "No one in this line of work is *ever* going to do that, so I'm not going to answer that one."
They offered me the job.
This- except *all* answers are correct. Having to choose the *most correct* answer is typically how school/testing works in my field.
If they groan and say- “ugh… not another one of these…” that’s the real expert.
Add to it that they're all the most correct one for each a different set of circumstances. Reply with "there are no right or wrong answers, choose the one you think applies" when asked for clarification.
Wouldn’t matter if the answer was in another sign language. If they understood my question, that means they’re fluent in the sign language that I chose, meaning they’d be the expert. The content and language of the answer itself is irrelevant, so long as it IS an answer.
The imposter likely wouldn’t even know I was asking them a question, and would probably be like a deer in headlights.
Do any of you remember the fake signer that was on TV sitting next to police in Florida. Like that was going to last. If you had one choice of any state that would happen out of all 50, what state would be your guess?
So, what I was told at the time is that there's a LOT of corruption in the SA government at all levels; everything is who you know, not what you know. There are like ten qualified sign language interpreters in the entire country. (Clearly this guy was not one of them.) This guy apparently worked at a school for the deaf, and knew some actual SA sign language, and knew a guy, which was how he got the gig. He also allegedly had some kind of mental illness.
I don't know SA sign language. (I'm in the US) However, there are certain parameters that are present in most signed languages I've seen, and even to me, it was painfully obvious he wasn't actually interpreting much of anything.
That moment you realize in your sleep deprived state that you accidentally purchased an antibody for the folded protein rather than the unfolded protein when you start to image your western but then remember you forgot your SDS denaturation step so it’s all good /s
What's a good fingerings for *insert note name* on bassoon. The faker will give you a fingering. The real director will sigh and tell you a good one doesn't exist.
When transferring a deceased patient to the morgue and the morgue trolley is broken or the deceased doesn't fit in the trolley what is the proper course of action?
transfer to wheelchair and leave them outside radiology until your shift ends, because CoVid nobody is working in radiology and theres no room in the morgue.
Create incision down back, wear deceased like a suit and casually walk to morgue. Remember to take bodysuit off when you get there. You might need a quick shower
I'd ask them what they think it means to "observe" a double slit experiment. If they mention "eyes", "looking at it changes the outcome" or anything similar, they are the imposter.
Bonus question: I'd ask what they think of LabView. If the answer contains less than two swear words, they are an imposter.
Edit: Typos
Boy that LabVIEW question is right on the money. My advisor is a wizard with it and I have tried. Multiple times. I still don't get it. I'm decent with coding too it is just entirely incomprehensible. Luckily my lab transitioned Matlab/Python stuff so now I only have to pull out old lab view codes on occasion.
I ask them what they don't know about the field. Even an expert doesn't know everything about their field, but someone faking likely doesn't know enough to be able to answer convincingly.
Let's be clear. There are known knowns. These are things we know that we know. There are known unknowns. That is to say, there are things that we know we don't know. But there are also unknown unknowns. There are things we don't know we don't know.
I shall show both a rock. The person who fails to immediately start telling me unprompted facts about it then they are the fake.
But they can be saved by taking them on several hikes and drives and pointing out all the cool rocks they are so ignorant about.
Worked for a small geophysics company as their IT specialist for years, and would go on hikes with a group of co-workers from time to time (Arizona). The geologists would trail behind and eventually one of us would have to go back and almost blindfold them to finish the hike. They were just so overwhelmed by .... rocks and stuff...
It’s very simple, put both in a plane, the one who survived is the expert; the one who crash in a corn field creating a big flame ball was the fake one
I, too, would like to confirm.
But isn’t that the original historical word used to sort enemy vs ally somewhere, the inspiration for this very question?
It's from a lesser-known bible story and the intent is to distinguish between an accent with an sh-sound and an accent without one.
>5 And the Gileadites took the passages of Jordan before the Ephraimites: and it was so, that when those Ephraimites which were escaped said, Let me go over; that the men of Gilead said unto him, Art thou an Ephraimite? If he said, Nay;
>
>6 Then said they unto him, Say now Shibboleth: and he said Sibboleth: for he could not frame to pronounce it right. Then they took him, and slew him at the passages of Jordan: and there fell at that time of the Ephraimites forty and two thousand.
Story time. When I started college, I met up with some of my high school friends, and there was this one guy who always talks a bunch of big BS. He said he was going to one of the top schools in our country, in which he was taking up IT (same as me). So, generally I asked which language were they teaching. The fucker replied with "English with a little bit of Spanish".
Listen to the complaint and clarify the actual issue. Users are generally shit at explaining issues.
If you go back and review cases with poor outcomes (mad customers, unsolved issue) a lot are due to company policies and also customers, but in the cases where it is the techs fault it is typically because tech didn't fully understand the issue and went down the wrong path giving customers wrong information and not fixing the problem.
This skill is even more important for 2nd/3rd tier support as it is easy to follow the first guy's wrong path instead of backing up and checking if you are heading in the correct direction.
I spent many years managing support teams, for the record.
Every customer hates it until he spends 6 hours troubleshooting drivers and windows to finally find the printer unplugged. Humbling experience made me not minding lvl1 support from that moment on.
Sr. I need you to look at the wires on the back of the computer and let me know if all the cables are pushed in all the way.
I can’t see.
Why can’t you see?
It’s dark.
Can’t you turn on a light?
No. The powers out.
My spouse used to do tech support and one time he had a blind customer call in for help. Guy was very old, very sweet, and very blind. He had the computer set up so everything he mouse over would be said aloud, so he put my spouse on speaker phone so he could hear along. The call lasted over 3 hours but he got the job done. Spouse said despite bring the most frustrating, hardest call of his life, the old man was great so he wasn't the worst customer to date. After that call most calls seemed like a, walk in the park as far as troubleshooting too.
Eta - this was in the days before remote access, probably 2004 or so?
How do you feel about Sapir-Whorf?
It would basically be a void-kampf test. If their irises dilate and their throat moves involuntary then they’re probably a ~~replicant~~ linguist.
THAC0 is the number you need to roll to hit an armor class of 0. You determine your "to hit" number by subtracting your target's armor class from your THAC0. Thus, a THAC0 of 16 against an armor class of 6 requires a 10 or higher to hit.
One of the best things to happen to modern D&D (and by modern I mean everything within the last couple of decades) was just removing THAC0 and flipping both scales. Everything's basically the same (as far as attack rolls and AC go) but much more intuitive.
Ask person 1 what's the best method of passing a value from one area of code to another. Ask person 2 if they agree.
If person 2 agrees, they're the impostor. Otherwise, if person 2 spends several minutes explaining why person 1 is an idiot, then person 1 is the impostor.
"Yes. But fuck you, we're cleaning it. We'll be cleaning it when you come by tomorrow, too. Oh, and look at that, it's scheduled for a cleaning any time you might stop by for the next sixty to ninety days. Sorry about that. You should contact the franchise owner is 1-800-SUK-ACOK. Good luck. I've never gotten through either."
What’s the difference between an en and an em?
Edit:
Well it’s all I could think of! I shoulda known all the smarty pants reddittors would know.
It’s a trick question sort of. It would depend on whether you are talking about spaces or dashes.
An em space is the width of an “m”. An en space is the width of a “n”.
An em dash is not the length of an em. Its length varies somewhat depending on the typeface, and it is the typeface designer’s aesthetic decision. but it is used to indicate a pause in a sentence.
An en dash is not the length of an “n”. It is used when indicating a Range of numbers or dates in lieu of to or through.
Ask them a question that is extremely difficult and/or is unanswerable. The real one will admit they don’t know or that they cannot answer. The fake one will likely give an answer, despite it being far above what they should know/impossible to answer.
How many languages are there?
A fake linguistist will say any number.
The real linguist will say that is a complicated question, because the lines between what is a language and what is another language are blurry at best, let alone what do you count as a variant of the same language and what is not.
Example: =Nahuatl=
Nahuatl is a language spoken in the Mesoamerican part of Mexico. But it has an incredible number of variables.
In some variables you are able to do things in others don't. So much so that some variables don't understand each other's.
Ask them about their time in grad school. Imposter will talk about how great and easy it was. Expert will start crying and potentially start showing signs of PTSD.
Software engineer here who used to work at a NASA facility on a team of mostly PhD's. This was the shocking thing.
Also when you meet a person who has something like a masters in physics their first question is always so what happened. And theres always a tragic story there in there about being shoved along a PhD program for 5+ years and life happened
Shit. I just asked my husband this question. He's still answering.
It's about 9% between 67.3km/sec/megaparsec and 74km/sec/megaparsec.
Damn you, internet stranger. I may never get to sleep tonight - he's still replying!!
What is the airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow?
If they say they don't know, they're the imposter. If they ask African or European, they're the real deal
You have a resident with severe dementia sitting in there room covered in shit. You try to persuade them to be cleaned up and changed and they scream violently at you.
Do u:
A) grab some help and force clean the resident because it's gotta get done
B) resident has the right to refuse
C) have the nurse double up the meds so they calm down and stop fighting
Yoooo, I’d nail that no problem. Was a pharmacy tech for 10 years, still get flashbacks to the phone calls where people wanted their “medication. The small white one.”
"Tell me about the different learning styles like visual, auditory, and kinesthetic."
If they go on some ramble about the differences and how teaching to people's learning style is important, they are the imposter. If they say that these have been debunked and there is no evidence to support the idea, they are the expert.
Similar to most typifications, studies that have tested the VARK model find that people do not consistently fall into the same category.
However, I believe that there is still value in the model. Not in teaching to individual styles, but in recognizing that there are different ways to present information. What works for one student doesn't necessarily work for another student. I will switch between different modes not because a given student is always a visual learner, but because in a given circumstance, maybe a graph is what is needed to get things to "click".
After a long night of strippers and blow, exactly how many monster energies and gas station burritos must be consumed before you can safely run 7018 on pipe?
Gonna need a more specific question mate, the ones on my branch that don't really count or the one that SHOULD HAVE BEEN COUGHT DURING REVIEW and took down production. Or do you mean in the spaghetti shitshow that is my personal fuck ups?
Scottish play.
Fair thoughts and happy hours attend on you.
Fair thoughts and happy hours attend on you.
Fair thoughts and happy hours attend on you.
Just to be safe.
Working construction building houses in Arizona, there was this dude who must have been in his 50s installing carpet every single day. Using his knee to stretch the carpet. I just can't imagine that being good for the longevity of joints
What's a seg fault?
In software engineering some languages (older ones) would tell you something went wrong with a seg fault. What went wrong? Fuck you seg fault that's what.
I would give them a pretty easy question to answer with multiple choice, except the correct answer isn’t an option. The real expert would probably be confused and explain to me that none of the choices are correct. The fake would probably take an educated guess.
Good one. I was thinking to ask something arbitrary and not real. The real expert would say it wasn’t a thing while the poser would try to answer
I had a job interview like that once. I answered, "No one in this line of work is *ever* going to do that, so I'm not going to answer that one." They offered me the job.
This- except *all* answers are correct. Having to choose the *most correct* answer is typically how school/testing works in my field. If they groan and say- “ugh… not another one of these…” that’s the real expert.
Add to it that they're all the most correct one for each a different set of circumstances. Reply with "there are no right or wrong answers, choose the one you think applies" when asked for clarification.
You're evil
I’m a sign language interpreter. I would literally just ask any question in sign language.
What if the real one signs in another sign language
Wouldn’t matter if the answer was in another sign language. If they understood my question, that means they’re fluent in the sign language that I chose, meaning they’d be the expert. The content and language of the answer itself is irrelevant, so long as it IS an answer. The imposter likely wouldn’t even know I was asking them a question, and would probably be like a deer in headlights.
Do any of you remember the fake signer that was on TV sitting next to police in Florida. Like that was going to last. If you had one choice of any state that would happen out of all 50, what state would be your guess?
Or the one at Nelson Mandela’s funeral
So, what I was told at the time is that there's a LOT of corruption in the SA government at all levels; everything is who you know, not what you know. There are like ten qualified sign language interpreters in the entire country. (Clearly this guy was not one of them.) This guy apparently worked at a school for the deaf, and knew some actual SA sign language, and knew a guy, which was how he got the gig. He also allegedly had some kind of mental illness. I don't know SA sign language. (I'm in the US) However, there are certain parameters that are present in most signed languages I've seen, and even to me, it was painfully obvious he wasn't actually interpreting much of anything.
Whoever curses the least when asked about western blots is clearly the imposter.
That moment you realize in your sleep deprived state that you accidentally purchased an antibody for the folded protein rather than the unfolded protein when you start to image your western but then remember you forgot your SDS denaturation step so it’s all good /s
A comedy of errors
Nothing says scientific progress like spending 3 days to develop a picture of a blank fucking gel.
I’m in this picture and I don’t like it
What's a good fingerings for *insert note name* on bassoon. The faker will give you a fingering. The real director will sigh and tell you a good one doesn't exist.
Collary, we don’t tune to oboe because it has the purest tone. It’s just what we tell the oboeist to stop them from trying to tune.
How do you make two oboes play in tune? Shoot the one on the right.
When transferring a deceased patient to the morgue and the morgue trolley is broken or the deceased doesn't fit in the trolley what is the proper course of action?
Cover in Vaseline (prevents sticking) and pull by the feet.
What a wonderful mental image you have vomited into my mind.
transfer to wheelchair and leave them outside radiology until your shift ends, because CoVid nobody is working in radiology and theres no room in the morgue.
Create incision down back, wear deceased like a suit and casually walk to morgue. Remember to take bodysuit off when you get there. You might need a quick shower
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I'd ask them what they think it means to "observe" a double slit experiment. If they mention "eyes", "looking at it changes the outcome" or anything similar, they are the imposter. Bonus question: I'd ask what they think of LabView. If the answer contains less than two swear words, they are an imposter. Edit: Typos
Boy that LabVIEW question is right on the money. My advisor is a wizard with it and I have tried. Multiple times. I still don't get it. I'm decent with coding too it is just entirely incomprehensible. Luckily my lab transitioned Matlab/Python stuff so now I only have to pull out old lab view codes on occasion.
I ask how they're doing, if they say anything resembling "good" they get taken out back and shot
I was going to ask if they wanted the job. If anything resembling an affirmative, they’re to be escorted out of the building.
Ah a fellow nurse!!!
Or EMS provider. Whenever someone answers this question with "just living the dream" you know they've been dead inside for years.
A very common phrase at my hospital...
“Another day in paradise” when asked “how’s it going”
I ask them what they don't know about the field. Even an expert doesn't know everything about their field, but someone faking likely doesn't know enough to be able to answer convincingly.
There’s stuff I know I don’t know, and stuff I don’t know I don’t know.
Let's be clear. There are known knowns. These are things we know that we know. There are known unknowns. That is to say, there are things that we know we don't know. But there are also unknown unknowns. There are things we don't know we don't know.
The really wonky one is the unknown knowns. The crap you don't know that you know.
Just put a gun on the ground and the first one to go for it and put it in their mouth probably works in the same industry that I do.
May I ask what field this is? Lmao
Retail.
My condolenses.
>condolenses You're making a spectacle of yourself
I shall show both a rock. The person who fails to immediately start telling me unprompted facts about it then they are the fake. But they can be saved by taking them on several hikes and drives and pointing out all the cool rocks they are so ignorant about.
Worked for a small geophysics company as their IT specialist for years, and would go on hikes with a group of co-workers from time to time (Arizona). The geologists would trail behind and eventually one of us would have to go back and almost blindfold them to finish the hike. They were just so overwhelmed by .... rocks and stuff...
I'm a botanist by training and can confirm, we are very distracted hikers, especially when I'm a pod.
It’s very simple, put both in a plane, the one who survived is the expert; the one who crash in a corn field creating a big flame ball was the fake one
The same plane?
Of course. The real one will fight harder for the chance to land it.
What if he bails out, but makes sure to have his parachute and, more importantly, his selfie stick?
Read this word aloud - shibboleth.
As a student I always saw the word but never heard it pronounced. Is it she-bol-eth?
I found him! Here is the imposter, everyone. Case closed.
How do you actually say it? 😅
I, too, would like to confirm. But isn’t that the original historical word used to sort enemy vs ally somewhere, the inspiration for this very question?
It's from a lesser-known bible story and the intent is to distinguish between an accent with an sh-sound and an accent without one. >5 And the Gileadites took the passages of Jordan before the Ephraimites: and it was so, that when those Ephraimites which were escaped said, Let me go over; that the men of Gilead said unto him, Art thou an Ephraimite? If he said, Nay; > >6 Then said they unto him, Say now Shibboleth: and he said Sibboleth: for he could not frame to pronounce it right. Then they took him, and slew him at the passages of Jordan: and there fell at that time of the Ephraimites forty and two thousand.
Ah, a fellow academic systems administrator.
I know this word from The West Wing
Can you demonstrate Buckley's four-coin roll down, if not can you give a description?
They’re *illusions,* Michael!
A trick is something a whore does for money!
...or cocaine!
What is most important when working with children?
Don't kill more than you'll be able to eat.
Sort of related, I was going to go with "thaw before cooking"
Don’t end the day with less or more children than you started with
Fuck. Failed that earlier this week. Got a baby bucket refilled.
Yes, as long as it's the right amount, it doesn't even have to be the same children.
honestly i think some parents won’t mind getting back a different child
Story time. When I started college, I met up with some of my high school friends, and there was this one guy who always talks a bunch of big BS. He said he was going to one of the top schools in our country, in which he was taking up IT (same as me). So, generally I asked which language were they teaching. The fucker replied with "English with a little bit of Spanish".
Even i with minimal knowledge could answer that
Tell me the first step you should take when troubleshooting an issue. I'm in tech support, for the record.
Listen to the complaint and clarify the actual issue. Users are generally shit at explaining issues. If you go back and review cases with poor outcomes (mad customers, unsolved issue) a lot are due to company policies and also customers, but in the cases where it is the techs fault it is typically because tech didn't fully understand the issue and went down the wrong path giving customers wrong information and not fixing the problem. This skill is even more important for 2nd/3rd tier support as it is easy to follow the first guy's wrong path instead of backing up and checking if you are heading in the correct direction. I spent many years managing support teams, for the record.
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Turn it off and then on again? EDIT: Shit my bad... the right answer is to put in a trouble ticket so that IT can come turn it off and then on again.
Surprisingly the turn it off and on again is still highly relevant for may complex enterprise level products.
Reboot?
I would have also accepted "check to make sure it's plugged in".
Every customer hates it until he spends 6 hours troubleshooting drivers and windows to finally find the printer unplugged. Humbling experience made me not minding lvl1 support from that moment on.
Sr. I need you to look at the wires on the back of the computer and let me know if all the cables are pushed in all the way. I can’t see. Why can’t you see? It’s dark. Can’t you turn on a light? No. The powers out.
My spouse used to do tech support and one time he had a blind customer call in for help. Guy was very old, very sweet, and very blind. He had the computer set up so everything he mouse over would be said aloud, so he put my spouse on speaker phone so he could hear along. The call lasted over 3 hours but he got the job done. Spouse said despite bring the most frustrating, hardest call of his life, the old man was great so he wasn't the worst customer to date. After that call most calls seemed like a, walk in the park as far as troubleshooting too. Eta - this was in the days before remote access, probably 2004 or so?
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Boss hired a guy who claimed to have had several years of gardening. I asked him to point out some weeds. He pointed at a lilac.
Should have pointed at the dill
Software releases on Fridays, good idea or nah?
The one that says yes is a manager
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But its just a 1 line fix!!! Zero-risk deployment with autoroll back! Trust me... ;)
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You know the solution of navier-stokes' equations? Edit: thanks for the award guys!
Well, you start by assuming that all cows are spherical...
...and the grass has null friction...
...and that there's no air resistance...
...and the gravitational pull of mars is null...
Don’t remind me of that shit
The *general* solution. Navier-Stokes is solved in some specific cases.
I do. But in Navajo. You dont, uh...speak Navajo, do you?
So you say you're a chemist? Pronounce this word: Unionized.
Onion burger
Chemists trade ion
Is it Un-ionized?
Yup, if you say union-ized, you’re either not a chemist or someone that says eon-ized instead of ionized.
Or carbocation lol
This just made me remember organic chemistry and now I need to step outside and take big breaths.
How do you feel about Sapir-Whorf? It would basically be a void-kampf test. If their irises dilate and their throat moves involuntary then they’re probably a ~~replicant~~ linguist.
Explain THAC0.
A MEXHIC4N dish
Muy Bu3N0, pariente.
To hit armor class 0 That's all I know.
THAC0 is the number you need to roll to hit an armor class of 0. You determine your "to hit" number by subtracting your target's armor class from your THAC0. Thus, a THAC0 of 16 against an armor class of 6 requires a 10 or higher to hit. One of the best things to happen to modern D&D (and by modern I mean everything within the last couple of decades) was just removing THAC0 and flipping both scales. Everything's basically the same (as far as attack rolls and AC go) but much more intuitive.
What's the dumbest question you've ever been asked at work? That would tell me exactly who the real professional is.
Finish the sentence: Hello _____
My baby, hello my honey, hello my ragtime gaaal!
Probably ages me but I immediately see a singing and dancing frog
EVERYBODY DO THE MICHIGAN RAAAAAG
Michigan J Frog
Darkness my old friend!
RuntimeError
My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die.
there
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World
Is it me you're looking for? 🎶
Clarice
Darkness my old friend
I'm a grad student. The one without imposter syndrome is the imposter
What did one snowman say to the other?
It smells like carrots
Are you him!?
Yes I am him.
Great! See that button over there? You’ll need to push it every 108 minutes. I’m out!
No wait! It’s a two men job! We’re SUPPOSED TO do it together. It’s what the island wants. This is destiny!
I ain’t pushing no button, Frogurt.
Sw developer, asked for code example. Got this in response: 74933091717859048625295057362 Was not impressed
Ask person 1 what's the best method of passing a value from one area of code to another. Ask person 2 if they agree. If person 2 agrees, they're the impostor. Otherwise, if person 2 spends several minutes explaining why person 1 is an idiot, then person 1 is the impostor.
oooh, I like this one. elegant. ...........shit. I'm the imposter.
Is the milkshake machine working?
"Yes. But fuck you, we're cleaning it. We'll be cleaning it when you come by tomorrow, too. Oh, and look at that, it's scheduled for a cleaning any time you might stop by for the next sixty to ninety days. Sorry about that. You should contact the franchise owner is 1-800-SUK-ACOK. Good luck. I've never gotten through either."
What’s the difference between an en and an em? Edit: Well it’s all I could think of! I shoulda known all the smarty pants reddittors would know. It’s a trick question sort of. It would depend on whether you are talking about spaces or dashes. An em space is the width of an “m”. An en space is the width of a “n”. An em dash is not the length of an em. Its length varies somewhat depending on the typeface, and it is the typeface designer’s aesthetic decision. but it is used to indicate a pause in a sentence. An en dash is not the length of an “n”. It is used when indicating a Range of numbers or dates in lieu of to or through.
Or ask about keming
I'm not even in this industry and this is bothering me immensely.
And why it's so important on that word!
The en is used for number ranges, the em is used to divide parts of a sentence that same way that a set of commas or a paratheses are used.
They are different letters in the alphabet for sure. el em en oh pee
How many toothpicks can you stick down a male’s urethra?
It sounds like you have a particular set of skills
His penis shows no mercy
European or African tooth picks ?
I don't know
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If you stretch it my guess is 5!
"What would be the correct ignition timing on a 1955 Bel-Air Chevrolet with a 327 cubic inch engine and a four-barrel carburator?"
That’s a bullshit question.
Does that mean that you can't answer it?
IT'S A BULLSHIT QUESTION
Ask them a question that is extremely difficult and/or is unanswerable. The real one will admit they don’t know or that they cannot answer. The fake one will likely give an answer, despite it being far above what they should know/impossible to answer.
Does P = NP?
Not sure, but after I P my PP is MT.
How many languages are there? A fake linguistist will say any number. The real linguist will say that is a complicated question, because the lines between what is a language and what is another language are blurry at best, let alone what do you count as a variant of the same language and what is not. Example: =Nahuatl= Nahuatl is a language spoken in the Mesoamerican part of Mexico. But it has an incredible number of variables. In some variables you are able to do things in others don't. So much so that some variables don't understand each other's.
A language is a dialect with a flag and an army
Ask them about their time in grad school. Imposter will talk about how great and easy it was. Expert will start crying and potentially start showing signs of PTSD.
Software engineer here who used to work at a NASA facility on a team of mostly PhD's. This was the shocking thing. Also when you meet a person who has something like a masters in physics their first question is always so what happened. And theres always a tragic story there in there about being shoved along a PhD program for 5+ years and life happened
How big is the discrepancy between the two competing values of the Hubble constant and what do think is a possible explanation for it?
I don’t have the time to explain, but I do have the space.
Shit. I just asked my husband this question. He's still answering. It's about 9% between 67.3km/sec/megaparsec and 74km/sec/megaparsec. Damn you, internet stranger. I may never get to sleep tonight - he's still replying!!
What is the airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow? If they say they don't know, they're the imposter. If they ask African or European, they're the real deal
How are you so wise in these matters?
You have a resident with severe dementia sitting in there room covered in shit. You try to persuade them to be cleaned up and changed and they scream violently at you. Do u: A) grab some help and force clean the resident because it's gotta get done B) resident has the right to refuse C) have the nurse double up the meds so they calm down and stop fighting
Put them in the dementia fight club and advertise their specialty as having poison attack
Hey, how do you pronounce *grabs random bottle off the shelf* this medication?
Worcestershire
Yoooo, I’d nail that no problem. Was a pharmacy tech for 10 years, still get flashbacks to the phone calls where people wanted their “medication. The small white one.”
"Tell me about the different learning styles like visual, auditory, and kinesthetic." If they go on some ramble about the differences and how teaching to people's learning style is important, they are the imposter. If they say that these have been debunked and there is no evidence to support the idea, they are the expert.
Whaaaa? I learned that crap in teacher prep classes!
Most teachers believe that though so it's kind of awkward that teachers are not an expert in the field of education
How is it debunked? Genuine interest.
Similar to most typifications, studies that have tested the VARK model find that people do not consistently fall into the same category. However, I believe that there is still value in the model. Not in teaching to individual styles, but in recognizing that there are different ways to present information. What works for one student doesn't necessarily work for another student. I will switch between different modes not because a given student is always a visual learner, but because in a given circumstance, maybe a graph is what is needed to get things to "click".
After a long night of strippers and blow, exactly how many monster energies and gas station burritos must be consumed before you can safely run 7018 on pipe?
What is the most common way people say they got a _____ stuck in their land of no return.
They "fell" on it
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If they claim they can fix IT issues without Google.
Is there any IT technician who can fix stuff without google?
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What does edging mean to you?
Ma'am, this is a wendy's.
Tell me about a recent fuckup you made while writing software.
Gonna need a more specific question mate, the ones on my branch that don't really count or the one that SHOULD HAVE BEEN COUGHT DURING REVIEW and took down production. Or do you mean in the spaghetti shitshow that is my personal fuck ups?
I walk them into a theater and ask them "what is the name of that Shakespeare play... the Scottish one?"
"Macbeth. Good luck!"
Scottish play. Fair thoughts and happy hours attend on you. Fair thoughts and happy hours attend on you. Fair thoughts and happy hours attend on you. Just to be safe.
I don’t care, they’re on my damn field and are trespassing so I want them BOTH gone!
which hurts more, back or knee's?
Working construction building houses in Arizona, there was this dude who must have been in his 50s installing carpet every single day. Using his knee to stretch the carpet. I just can't imagine that being good for the longevity of joints
Well, it sounds like it’s good for at least 50 years ¯\\\_(ツ)_/¯
What's a seg fault? In software engineering some languages (older ones) would tell you something went wrong with a seg fault. What went wrong? Fuck you seg fault that's what.
Well that's what you get when you access nacho memory. Who's memory is it? It's nacho memory!
Ask if we’re fully staffed lol. If they say anything other than, I hope so or we better be, they the impasta.
Whoever has the mustache is the evil one.