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Oh a bug, surely. How is the quiz supposed to give you insights when it's unanswerable?

By forcing you to make a decision without context.

Similar to how when presented with the trolley problem some will ask many follow up questions about the individuals on each track, the train, etc.

That’s not the point.

> By forcing you to make a decision without context.

Not the OP, but what would be the point to that? In any practical scenario there is always context, isnt it? I guess I don't quite get what we are trying to measure here.

But here, the context is relevant, and the analogy does not change this.

I think it’s a bug in getting a useful outcome, but it’s a feature in creating engagement with the post.

It is not primarily a matter of difficulty. The problem with choices like these is that they seem to be predicated on a rather simplistic, formulaic view of software development - a view that experienced developers will recognize as flawed.

In this case, one tacit assumption is that a given developer will typically adopt just one of these approaches. Another is that they can meaningfully and objectively be ordered along either of the axes purportedly being measured.