Originally Posted by zombiepizza:
“I don't think that knowing your general knowledge facts is necessarily as indicative of buisness skills and intelligence as some people are making out.
Some of these facts might seem obvious if you happened to have known them from a long time, such as if you happened to need them for school.
To an extent the people with better memories will know more - but there's millions of these sorts of facts and chances are you don't all sorts of things others would consider basic unless you spend a lot of time expanding your general knowledge.
The Edits are far keener to pick out the bits candidates get wrong as it makes better TV”
“I don't think that knowing your general knowledge facts is necessarily as indicative of buisness skills and intelligence as some people are making out.
Some of these facts might seem obvious if you happened to have known them from a long time, such as if you happened to need them for school.
To an extent the people with better memories will know more - but there's millions of these sorts of facts and chances are you don't all sorts of things others would consider basic unless you spend a lot of time expanding your general knowledge.
The Edits are far keener to pick out the bits candidates get wrong as it makes better TV”
^^This
It’s very easy to condemn the candidates for making mistakes such as this but I wonder what percentage of the UK population would have got all those right.
I guarantee everyone posting in this thread will have made a similarly stupid error at some point in their adult life. When you are in a high pressure time constrained environment such as the tasks it’s very easy to have a brain freeze and forget some basic fact that you would otherwise easily know.
Intelligence and the remembering of general knowledge type facts are completing different things as well. Knowing the name of the man who brought back the potato or the country he was born in is far less important than the ramifications of his trip to the new world and the impact they had.
