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Trezoid | 12 years ago

The odd thing with a question like that is how "most dangerous" is determined. Logically the volcano is the most unsafe environment, and people do die on them, but statistically far more dangerous, at least by death count, is the bed.

This is the kind of problem that would still cause issues for some people, especially if you had to scale them to produce identical captcha's relatively rarely (if the same one shows up too many times it can easily be hard-coded, requiring the most basic detection to solve it reliably) in that as you come up with more of these types of questions the expected answer gets rapidly more nuanced.

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reality_czech|12 years ago

So it's a captcha that keeps out computers and pedants on HN. Win/win, in my opinion.

crawrey|12 years ago

Dangerous does not necessarily mean fatal. The posed question specifically states environment, and the bed as an environment is typically a flat, soft, blunt, rectangular prism.

Whereas volcanoes, and more specifically, active volcanoes can be unpredicable and spurt out hot lava and ash.

The question is worded fine and your attempt to poke holes into this is invalid.

Even if a question is worded well, it can always be interpreted incorrectly. The question should not be blamed for a person's inability to process information.