Re: Let us test

[Wolf Lahti <wduby -at- PACCAR -dot- COM>]

I suggested

>  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.)



Eric J. Ray countered

>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.


I went to the store. the closest thing I found to Figure 1 is what the clerk
called a "bowling ball". For the life of me, I can't say that it looks any
more or less like Figure 1 than Figure 2. They come in many different
colors--should I have gotten a black one instead of this sort of pebbly green?

I tried another store, and the clerk told me what I had was a "light-fixture
globe". They didn't have any green ones.

Besides, this ia a test of a tech writer, not an illustrator. Maybe I should
have stipulated "no pictures". This is a low-budget test, after all. :)

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