18th May 2006, 10:23 AM
It's not the tests. I write quickly and I speak quickly, but apparently the system can't understand me. That is the issue at hand. Any human could understand my chicken scratches, but the handwriting thing apparently can not! I've had to totally change the way I write my 7's (top to bottom instead of bottom to top) just to get them recognized, and no that is NOT part of the test. I've seen documentaries on these sorts of tests and nowhere was this part of it. The fact is, the recognition software could use some serious work.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)