On: What Thomas Edison expected job candidates to know

[shrughes]

But any reasonable person should be able to answer the speed of sound question. After all, the rule of thumb for estimating lightning distance is that every 5 seconds is 1 mile. Reciting a definition is no better than reciting a string of digits.

[sofal → shrughes]

Are you saying that people who do not know that rule of thumb are not reasonable people?

[shrughes → sofal]

I obviously am.

[sofal → shrughes]

Chalk me up as unreasonable then, as I had never bothered to remember that rule.

[icebraining → shrughes]

That rule of thumb only works in a very small number of countries ;)