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Why was the multiple choice question invented?

A, To test 11 year old school children. B, To make a psychologists job easier with the use of mechanical marking. C, To ensure the American army doesn't recruit too many idiots D, Johnny has 4 apples

Public Comments

1. All of the above, and because people don't know how to make a simple decision anymore.
2. E. None of the above.. It was so I could pass tests!
3. E, All of the above.
4. E, the other 20%
5. C answers are usually C lol
6. I'm going with D.
7. D !!!!
8. Heha,I like letter C.But I must say,I like multiple choice questions.Always a better chance to get it right unlike if you always had to write the answer out.Now thats scary!
9. and why is it multiple choice - shouldn't it be one choice
10. for people like me who hated study......
11. to ensure us thickos have a chance
12. E. So we can answer multiple!lol :D
13. E-to give morons a chance ...
14. E. Because the single choice question was too easy.
15. If it was C it failed miserably.
16. E, to make us even more confused!
17. i choose E, so that i can find it easier to answer the qus on my science exam that i now feel i am bound to fail...
18. Scantron machines
19. To simplify..all of the above..
20. Because ticking boxes is fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuun!!!!! lol!;)
21. F ed if I know.
22. E,so that thick people like me could actually have a chance of getting something right. :p
23. D Johnny has 4 apples would be the best answer. =)
24. YES! But, you forgot poor 'penmanship'. A rather strange word if you think about it...like camaraderie with a writing utensil. To each his own...
25. It was developed to facilitate rapid appraisal of large numbers of candidates, in the military I think. Since then, it's been widely adopted as a convenient way of allowing people to demonstrate their knowledge without having to develop communications skills. Hidden talents remain well hidden, and the average manager now writes and speaks like a txt msg. Such managers apply their non-existent communications skills to everything they do, and that's why if you can't express what you want on a computer screen form, you can't have it; the data so collected being used to prove that no one wants it. By the way, I suppose you know about the chap in the army who was selected for a top-level intelligence training course, where the instructors found he was thick as two short planks. It turned out that he'd ticked every single box on all his assessment tests, so getting full marks for everything. Apart from that, I'd have said (C).