Re: Let us test

["Eric J. Ray" <ejray -at- RAYCOMM -dot- COM>]

The response from the other end of the office was:

1.      Go to the store.
2.      Go to produce department.
3.      Buy lettuce, as depicted in Figure 1.

Note: If the item you selected more closely
        resembles Figure 2 than Figure 1,
        you probably selected cabbage instead
        of lettuce.

<Production: Print figures in color>

Eric


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--- On Fri, 6 Sep 1996 09:05:17 -0700  Wolf Lahti <wduby -at- PACCAR -dot- COM> wrote:

>I know that a lot of folks dislike the very notion of a tech writer's test
>(e.g., a pencil-owner's manual), but I've come up with what I think is a
>particularly nasty one:

>  Write the instructions for sending someone to the grocery store to
>  buy a head of iceberg lettuce, with particular emphasis on assuring
>  that they do not come back instead with a head of cabbage (or anything
>  else). Assume the store they go to does not have these vegetables
>  labeled in any way. (Asking a store clerk for help is not an option.)

>I'd make an evil interviewer }:)

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