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Auto-text marks when question becomes answerable #99

Closed gryphonshafer closed 6 years ago

gryphonshafer commented 6 years ago

The auto-text functionality should insert a "»" character at the point where a question becomes answerable at a word break, when it becomes key between words. For example:

If anyone does » not love the Lord, what?

Alternatively, we may want to consider inserting the character at the point where the question becomes answerable mid-word:

If anyone do»es not love the Lord, what?

If we go with mid-word, it may be better for quizmaster readability to use an underline to denote "we're not to answerability yet".

scottpeterson commented 6 years ago

Is "the point where a question becomes answerable" calculated against the entire material, or against questions of this type?

gryphonshafer commented 6 years ago

Entire material but with an awareness of type, I would think, otherwise it would seem to me to be sort of a pointless mark. So an INT would be measured simply against the entire material in terms of when the question becomes key, but a CR would only check against the chapter. And we should probably just skip adding a mark for things like Q/Q2V. Maybe skip for CVRs too.

scottpeterson commented 6 years ago

So here's the thing:

  1. The Mark really has no value for QMs. I think the mark is used by OTHER software as their "difficulty score"

  2. So if CBQZ has a difficulty score, I see no reason for a mark.

if that makes sense.

jswingle commented 6 years ago

The mark is used by other question writers. As part of Internationals editing I have to make sure the mark is in the right place. It's extremely annoying editing because the question writer often puts it in the wrong place or doesn't factor in variations of punctuation, and I see zero purpose for putting it in to the QM's questions.

Could be of use when it comes to gathering statistics, if we ever wanted to try to figure out what % of questions are erred on which should have been answered correctly. This could be a useful thing to give us an edge at GWI/Internationals practices, but the QM would have to be able to keep track of when a quizzer jumped.

If for no other reason, having compatibility with other districts' question writing is a good thing, but I agree that it's redundant with the CBQZ difficulty score.

scottpeterson commented 6 years ago

Agree with everything Jeremy.

It's being used as a VERY simple proxy for question difficulty. But if it's being set by comparing how a question begins to the whole material, then it's going to overstate difficulty in just about every case.

gryphonshafer commented 6 years ago

OK, cool. I'm going to kill this ticket then. (I'm working on question difficulty score now anyway, and this ticket was way low on the priority order.)