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You have created a strawman argument... This has nothing to do with standardized testing or "state of the art", it's about learning.

There are many situations where there are multiple approaches to a problem and none of them are more "correct" than the other ones.

> but "recommened" approach needs 3min in order to get this done, meanwhile your's solution needs 15min

The point is that what if the recommended approach takes someone 15min, and a different approach that they understand better takes 3min.




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