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Quoting Bob LaMontagne <rlamont@POSTOFFICE.PROVIDENCE.EDU>:
No wonder kids aren't
learning anything in school - teachers can't formulate
proper questions!
Maybe that's part of it.........
But one could at least as plausibly argue the opposite point,
that kids are not sufficiently trained to deal with ill-posed
questions.
Real life is *not* a multiple-choice question where one of the
answers is clearly right and the others are clearly wrong.
In real life, almost all questions are ill-posed in one way
or another, perhaps underspecified, perhaps overspecified,
perhaps self-contradictory, et cetera.