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Google-proofing Quizzes
Cognitive Engineering
English - May 11, 2022 08:29 - 40 minutes - 37.4 MB - ★★★★ - 7 ratingsScience Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Are quizzes and puzzles dying in the era of the internet - where any answer is seemingly a click away - or can they be Google-proofed?
This week, we ask our in-house crossword expert to tell us what types of questions create answers that are hard to search for, how a puzzle question should be structured, and what features make for a good puzzle. We also discuss what makes something un-Googleable and consider the implications for human knowledge sharing. If listening to this podcast doesn’t make want to go to your next local pub quiz night, nothing will.
A few things we mentioned in this podcast:
- Quizmaster devises Google-proof questions to stop pub quiz smartphone cheats https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/quizmaster-devises-google-proof-questions-to-stop-878011
- Google-ability and Google ability http://ken-jennings.com/blog/archives/46
- ‘How Google Works’, according to Google developers (note: this doesn’t tell you how Google works) https://developers.google.com/search/docs/advanced/guidelines/how-search-works
- The ‘Tip of my Tongue’ subreddit https://www.reddit.com/r/tipofmytongue/
- Cognitive Engineering podcast: Why do we like puzzles? https://alephinsights.com/podcast/2021/01/why-do-we-like-puzzles
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