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DynaSport wrote:
I am not a very active member here, but even I know that there is no such thing as a simple test on FM.
That is a fact of life, inside and outside of FM.
A "simple test" is very rare in any field of endeavour, because there are almost always many variables to control. False positives and false negatives abound and have to be investigated and rooted out. Systematic errors are common and have to be guarded against, with pre-emptive planning and continual auditing and sampling in detail.
The majority of members and people do not truly comprehend this.
The worth of tests is inversely proportional to their simplicity. Carefully planned, rigorously executed, and fastidiously scrutinized tests take lots of time and effort, but they are the ones that yield the greatest amount of knowledge and insight.
Of course, where a person is working from a base of little experience, then a simple test can still be highly valuable, provided the person takes it as indicative only, and not definitive. I highly recommend that people get into the habit of making simple tests like that to help guide them on gaining experience and knowledge but not to put too much weight on the results without more study, review, discusssion and thought.
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