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Jocko Underground: Calandra''s Barometer. Good Questions VS Bad Ones | Allow For Creativity

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Jocko DEFCOR Network

Management, History, Business

4.831.3K Ratings

🗓️ 6 February 2023

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

Calandra''s Barometer. Good Questions VS Bad Ones.

Allow For Creativity.

Raising a bi-racial family in America.

Would we benefit from mandatory military service.

Dealing with big injuries.

Meditation.

Recommended non-military reading list.



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0:00.0

This is the Jocco Underground Podcast number 78 sitting here with Echo Charles EC. Yes, sir. Let me jocke it like

0:07.6

Kalanjra's

0:09.0

Barometer we're gonna talk about this. So this is an urban legend

0:14.6

It's something that was written about by a guy named Alexander Kalandra Kalandra something like that

0:21.3

He was a he was a test designer someone that makes tests and

0:25.3

he made tests for a living and so he wrote this thing about how to ask good questions versus bad ones and he published this story

0:37.8

1959 1959 this story was originally done

0:41.6

And it was published it got published many times throughout the years after that, but

0:47.2

The story goes something like this

0:50.0

There's a professor that asked a question on a test and the

0:55.8

Question on the test is something like how would one find the height of a building using only a barometer and

1:07.0

The correct answer being or one correct answer being the the anticipated answer is that

1:15.2

You well you would take a reading at the bottom of the building of the barometer and then

1:22.1

Take a reading at the top and then find the difference and then calculate the height based on the change in the barometer

1:29.3

That's the the right answer

1:34.4

But there was a bunch of other answers that came in

1:38.7

You know one person said tie rope to the barometer lowered off the building then measure the rope

1:42.7

Someone else said measure the shadow of the building and measure the shadow of the barometer

1:50.2

And you know the height of the barometer and then you can calculate the height of the building another one said

1:56.2

Mark the height of the barometer on the wall as you go up the stairs like each

2:01.6

Barometer and you know that the barometers whatever 12 inches tall and

2:05.8

Then you multiply it time the number of

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