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This privileges confident speakers. (The same way written tests privilege confident readers, and standardized written tests privilege those who have the time a

• fludlight 5y ago
  Schools should be teaching kids to be confident speakers and readers from an early age.
  • anoncake 5y ago
    If teaching worked 100% we wouldn't need exams.
• Invictus0 5y ago
  The real world also privileges confident speakers.
• ska 5y ago
  Not much if you do it well. Confident and wrong won’t get you far, either ...
• foerbert 5y ago
  I'm not sure about that. It certainly could, but it also certainly couldn't. I imagine being confidently incorrect is likely to produce a worse result than being unconfidently(?) incorrect, for example. Similarly, a less confident speaker may end up spending more effort justifying their answers, which could better expose their knowledge. I think it would depend quite a bit on the examiner in this case. Some people may even be simply biased against particularly confident speakers, particularly considering the relative positions of the speaker and examiner.
• TeMPOraL 5y ago
  It doesn't if the examiner understands the material. You can't bullshit someone who knows much more about a topic than you do - bullshitting with confidence will only make you sound like a fool. If the examiner isn't much more knowledgeable about a topic than their students, then something else has gone wrong.
  • jrumbut 5y ago
    But you can appear to know less than you actually do through a lack of confidence.
    • ska 5y ago
      Right, but that's why it takes a bit skill on the part of the examiner - you need to be able to support people through their nerves and lack of confidence.