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Originally Posted by Whippet
"On a scale of 1 to 10, how good do your bumpers look?"
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I enjoy some of the "stupid" questions. For example, the only correct answer for that one is "11". Similarly, someone from a different team came and asked me how many seconds ago our drive team had left the pit. My answer was 347 and a half. He said ok, took about two steps and then stopped as he realized what had happened.
Similarly, I love the questions that you can answer factually but you know that when you do it's going to screw up their data processing. For example, there's lots of non-exhaustive multiple choice: "does your robot use traction wheels or mecanum?" For us the correct answer is "no". Similarly, I like questions where the answers might become skewed so much that the average won't mean anything. If you ask how far robots can shoot you'll get one robot like ours that will go like 100 feet, and if you average that with a bunch of other robots that shoot between 10 and 20 feet your average will end up being above the distance that all but one of the robots shoot.