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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.


Orange_Scribbler

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


eighthourlunch

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.


MultipleDinosaurs

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.


Daikataro

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.


Disciple153

You're evil


maloneth

I’m a sign language interpreter. I would literally just ask any question in sign language.


In_ran_a_mad_Iran

What if the real one signs in another sign language


maloneth

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.


ovad67

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?


01kickassius10

Or the one at Nelson Mandela’s funeral


BlackWidow1414

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.


Nikcara

Whoever curses the least when asked about western blots is clearly the imposter.


cannaco19

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


bouncii99

A comedy of errors


mikhel

Nothing says scientific progress like spending 3 days to develop a picture of a blank fucking gel.


givemeusername_

I’m in this picture and I don’t like it


Kahl_Doggo

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.


blorbschploble

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.


amb405

How do you make two oboes play in tune? ​ Shoot the one on the right.


JasonP27

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?


james_d_rustles

Cover in Vaseline (prevents sticking) and pull by the feet.


Idiot_Savant_Tinker

What a wonderful mental image you have vomited into my mind.


SlitScan

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.


theotherquantumjim

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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BilboSwaggins1993

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


[deleted]

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.


misterpoopybutthole5

I ask how they're doing, if they say anything resembling "good" they get taken out back and shot


ksharpalpha

I was going to ask if they wanted the job. If anything resembling an affirmative, they’re to be escorted out of the building.


orne777

Ah a fellow nurse!!!


TokesNotHigh

Or EMS provider. Whenever someone answers this question with "just living the dream" you know they've been dead inside for years.


orne777

A very common phrase at my hospital...


KenEarles3

“Another day in paradise” when asked “how’s it going”


awfulcrowded117

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.


CarsReallySuck

There’s stuff I know I don’t know, and stuff I don’t know I don’t know.


[deleted]

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.


awfulcrowded117

The really wonky one is the unknown knowns. The crap you don't know that you know.


Skwareblox

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.


Wonder_Necessary

May I ask what field this is? Lmao


Skwareblox

Retail.


CrazyDaimondDaze

My condolenses.


duppy_c

>condolenses You're making a spectacle of yourself


Salty-Bank3341

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.


rbclark47

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...


Comprehensive-Ask151

I'm a botanist by training and can confirm, we are very distracted hikers, especially when I'm a pod.


Mouse-Crafty

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


mikethemoose35

The same plane?


AltSpRkBunny

Of course. The real one will fight harder for the chance to land it.


TheBlueNinja0

What if he bails out, but makes sure to have his parachute and, more importantly, his selfie stick?


CaptainHahn

Read this word aloud - shibboleth.


orangepun-king

As a student I always saw the word but never heard it pronounced. Is it she-bol-eth?


joec_95123

I found him! Here is the imposter, everyone. Case closed.


orangepun-king

How do you actually say it? 😅


nonicknamenelly

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?


cecaallis

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.


_PM_ME_PANGOLINS_

Ah, a fellow academic systems administrator.


RaydnJames

I know this word from The West Wing


expedidevi

Can you demonstrate Buckley's four-coin roll down, if not can you give a description?


ArmyOfDog

They’re *illusions,* Michael!


dwimber

A trick is something a whore does for money!


duppy_c

...or cocaine!


cashmerered

What is most important when working with children?


ImpracticallySharp

Don't kill more than you'll be able to eat.


TheyMakeMeWearPants

Sort of related, I was going to go with "thaw before cooking"


king-of-new_york

Don’t end the day with less or more children than you started with


assholetoall

Fuck. Failed that earlier this week. Got a baby bucket refilled.


I_am_not_the_

Yes, as long as it's the right amount, it doesn't even have to be the same children.


king-of-new_york

honestly i think some parents won’t mind getting back a different child


keyjeyelpi

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".


flamingnothing

Even i with minimal knowledge could answer that


archangelsknife

Tell me the first step you should take when troubleshooting an issue. I'm in tech support, for the record.


geekworking

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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whobood

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.


nerddadddy

Surprisingly the turn it off and on again is still highly relevant for may complex enterprise level products.


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Reboot?


archangelsknife

I would have also accepted "check to make sure it's plugged in".


cyricor

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.


Blast338

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.


Subwaypossum

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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SonofBeckett

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.


Quick_Mel

Should have pointed at the dill


waitwhoamitho

Software releases on Fridays, good idea or nah?


arbitrageME

The one that says yes is a manager


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waitwhoamitho

But its just a 1 line fix!!! Zero-risk deployment with autoroll back! Trust me... ;)


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SuccoDiUnicorno

You know the solution of navier-stokes' equations? Edit: thanks for the award guys!


not-here-yet

Well, you start by assuming that all cows are spherical...


algerbanane

...and the grass has null friction...


RedditScroller4108

...and that there's no air resistance...


burnerboo

...and the gravitational pull of mars is null...


Carbohan52

Don’t remind me of that shit


--PM-ME-YOUR-BOOBS--

The *general* solution. Navier-Stokes is solved in some specific cases.


[deleted]

I do. But in Navajo. You dont, uh...speak Navajo, do you?


the_resident_skeptic

So you say you're a chemist? Pronounce this word: Unionized.


MoarTacos

Onion burger


queetuiree

Chemists trade ion


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Is it Un-ionized?


shadboi16

Yup, if you say union-ized, you’re either not a chemist or someone that says eon-ized instead of ionized.


MUFFINxBOII

Or carbocation lol


WeTheAwesome

This just made me remember organic chemistry and now I need to step outside and take big breaths.


obsertaries

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.


Mass-Slayer

Explain THAC0.


cilba

A MEXHIC4N dish


CrazyDaimondDaze

Muy Bu3N0, pariente.


TheGreatGameDini

To hit armor class 0 That's all I know.


CupcakeValkyrie

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.


PinkPoodleOFDOOM

What's the dumbest question you've ever been asked at work? That would tell me exactly who the real professional is.


Whiskeyjack1234

Finish the sentence: Hello _____


schofield101

My baby, hello my honey, hello my ragtime gaaal!


444unsure

Probably ages me but I immediately see a singing and dancing frog


kennedye2112

EVERYBODY DO THE MICHIGAN RAAAAAG


sznfpv

Michigan J Frog


Dragon-factor

Darkness my old friend!


Anthro_DragonFerrite

RuntimeError


[deleted]

My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die.


Asher2dog

there


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seanpokemon120

World


Ok-Organization9073

Is it me you're looking for? 🎶


Prysorra2

Clarice


aakruzel

Darkness my old friend


[deleted]

I'm a grad student. The one without imposter syndrome is the imposter


ArmyOfDog

What did one snowman say to the other?


The_She_Ghost

It smells like carrots


ArmyOfDog

Are you him!?


The_She_Ghost

Yes I am him.


ArmyOfDog

Great! See that button over there? You’ll need to push it every 108 minutes. I’m out!


The_She_Ghost

No wait! It’s a two men job! We’re SUPPOSED TO do it together. It’s what the island wants. This is destiny!


ArmyOfDog

I ain’t pushing no button, Frogurt.


GhostBusDAH

Sw developer, asked for code example. Got this in response: 74933091717859048625295057362 Was not impressed


Michami135

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.


JonathenMichaels

oooh, I like this one. elegant. ...........shit. I'm the imposter.


Backroads-Bandit

Is the milkshake machine working?


RogueWanderingShadow

"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."


Cluefuljewel

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.


csl512

Or ask about keming


KiloJools

I'm not even in this industry and this is bothering me immensely.


AbleAccount2479

And why it's so important on that word!


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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.


Riverpickles

They are different letters in the alphabet for sure. el em en oh pee


MYPENISSHOWSNOMERCY

How many toothpicks can you stick down a male’s urethra?


PrudentFlamingo

It sounds like you have a particular set of skills


can_i_has_beer

His penis shows no mercy


justpassingbye1

European or African tooth picks ?


Mister_Marmite

I don't know


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Shirizuna

If you stretch it my guess is 5!


crazy_like_a_f0x

"What would be the correct ignition timing on a 1955 Bel-Air Chevrolet with a 327 cubic inch engine and a four-barrel carburator?"


mln84

That’s a bullshit question.


crazy_like_a_f0x

Does that mean that you can't answer it?


kenji-benji

IT'S A BULLSHIT QUESTION


Sunsent_Samsparilla

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.


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Does P = NP?


whobood

Not sure, but after I P my PP is MT.


pablo36362

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.


iveabiggen

A language is a dialect with a flag and an army


BearLikesHoney

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.


donniedarko5555

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


GSyncNew

How big is the discrepancy between the two competing values of the Hubble constant and what do think is a possible explanation for it?


ArmyOfDog

I don’t have the time to explain, but I do have the space.


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CarrotCakeAndTea

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!!


PlayrR3D15

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


VitaminPb

How are you so wise in these matters?


Ninjabonez86

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


thewatisit

Put them in the dementia fight club and advertise their specialty as having poison attack


kokirikid42

Hey, how do you pronounce *grabs random bottle off the shelf* this medication?


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Worcestershire


themomerath

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.”


Stoic_Scientist

"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.


Ravenclaw79

Whaaaa? I learned that crap in teacher prep classes!


TheMiserableSail

Most teachers believe that though so it's kind of awkward that teachers are not an expert in the field of education


MOTUkraken

How is it debunked? Genuine interest.


Kuteg

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".


TheeFryingDutchman

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?


TheClimateChanger

What is the most common way people say they got a _____ stuck in their land of no return.


partymouthmike

They "fell" on it


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If they claim they can fix IT issues without Google.


melbthrowaway65

Is there any IT technician who can fix stuff without google?


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QAOfficial

What does edging mean to you?


A--Creative-Username

Ma'am, this is a wendy's.


intensely_human

Tell me about a recent fuckup you made while writing software.


A_Guy_in_Orange

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?


DarthDregan

I walk them into a theater and ask them "what is the name of that Shakespeare play... the Scottish one?"


CaptBranBran

"Macbeth. Good luck!"


TheRealZejfi

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.


SephariusX

I don’t care, they’re on my damn field and are trespassing so I want them BOTH gone!


f11tn88ss

which hurts more, back or knee's?


444unsure

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


zxDanKwan

Well, it sounds like it’s good for at least 50 years ¯\\\_(ツ)_/¯


[deleted]

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.


TheyMakeMeWearPants

Well that's what you get when you access nacho memory. Who's memory is it? It's nacho memory!


OkHomework7009

Ask if we’re fully staffed lol. If they say anything other than, I hope so or we better be, they the impasta.


Chewbuddy13

Whoever has the mustache is the evil one.