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hypothetical question is a question about a made-up or imaginary situation. It's a question that we use to think about possibilities or to test someone's understanding or reasoning.
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Be prepared to
answer hypothetical questions regarding patient scenarios that are likely to occur on the job as well as those that may never happen.
If there's one strain of criticism to this argument, it comes from
hypothetical questions about how many ineffective employees we should expect schools to identify.
I find it incredibly helpful to set a stop watch, use old exams or find
hypothetical questions on the Internet and write like I would during the actual exam.
With these traits in mind, the professors created a new test that focuses on an applicant's ability to respond to
hypothetical questions instead of simply testing analytical ability like the current test.
You could be asked questions about your motivation and understanding of the business, or
hypothetical questions designed to assess how you would behave in different situations.
Ask the audience a question, encourage people to call out their thoughts during a brainstorming session or at the very least
ask hypothetical questions to stimulate the audience.
(And then there was the time, in 2013, when Mr. Coury, at a Goldman Sachs conference, indicated his dislike for
hypothetical questions by saying that «if your aunt had balls, she'd be your uncle.»)
By contrast, reference questions make the Court function in a way that makes it more like a legislature: it is asked to work in a judicial - factual vacuum, answering
hypothetical questions in general terms, and implicitly committing itself in advance to rules or principles that have not been tested in concrete circumstances or sounded out in lower court proceedings.
The question of a military conflict between NATO member states would have been an
entirely hypothetical question a decade ago, but looking at certain NATO member states (e.g. Turkey) increasing...
In practice it's incredibly difficult to evaluate
hypothetical questions like, «if this bad story about a candidate hadn't come out during the campaign, would they still have lost?»
This
simple hypothetical question leads to a mystery Michael must solve with a $ 100,000 bounty and his family hanging in the balance for the right answer.
So,
hypothetical question here: suppose someone was to download a photo licensed as Creative Commons — Attribution — Noncommercial from flickr and suppose they were to sell prints of it on eBay.
At least that's the thinking at Microsoft, where hundreds of job seekers have been asked the bathroom question as part of the legendary «interview loop» — a rigorous ritual in which candidates are grilled by their future colleagues with a barrage of puzzles, riddles, and
bizarre hypothetical questions.
Yuri, my post was a
hopeful hypothetical question, but I wonder if I wouldn't do the same as you suggest... in my darker moments I probably would.
The Articles do sometimes put
forward hypothetical questions or do imply with acquiring a hypothetical new signing so it is only natural for us to give hypothetical answers, and if people cant tell the difference from a hypothetical scenariio to a clear cut one well then thats their problem.
So you know, of course, that this lends itself to the
ridiculous hypothetical question — if the creatures from Dragon Wars descended upon Dunder - Miflin, what would happen?
Screenwriter and first - time director Menno Meyjes» Max is an intelligent and utterly
compelling hypothetical question in which scholarly musings and dramatic irony come together to create a powerful, thought - provoking experience.
Consider a
similar hypothetical question, asked by a bank: «Our customer has $ 1,000 in an account, and we paid him $ 10 in interest for the first year.
It recalled its settled case - law that the preliminary reference procedure serves the purpose of effectively resolving EU law disputes rather than providing advisory opinions or answering hypothetical questions [130].
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