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Charlie Stross ([identity profile] autopope.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] major_clanger 2009-08-04 05:10 am (UTC)

An acquaintance of mine -- lawyer, American, anglophile -- failed the test too. He went to the books. On a couple of the questions they're simply factually wrong: notably the answer to the divorce question and the parliamentary record (depending on how you parse it).

It's basically a rote learning test designed to exclude folks who are bright enough to think they know the answers already, and to pass the slavishly obedient. Interesting implications, those ...

Also, as Feorag noticed: in the immigration statistics? They class UK citizens returning to the UK as "immigrants" -- a category that accounts for 75% of the 100,000 immigrants arriving per year.

Double-hmm.

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