Originally Posted By: gromicko This post was automatically imported from our archived forum.
I was thinking of making a new photo based course. It’s purpose would be to help inspectors find SPOT defects.
Rather than having a single photo depicting a defect and ask "What's wrong with this picture?", perhaps we could have multiple photos. Only some photos would depict a defect. The others would be just photos of components of a house that are defect-free.
The object would be to pick out the photos that clearly depict a defect.
This would closely simulate an actual inspection.
At the end the course would produce the list of photos that depict defects you failed to notice (oops, I missed that one!).
Since there might be disagreement about some photos, we could put a link to a dedicated thread on this message board for each photo. That way if there is any dispute or ambiguity about a photo, we could replace it.
Originally Posted By: dvalley This post was automatically imported from our archived forum.
Bring it on, Nick.
Sounds like a great educational tool. Mixing the defective component photos with the defect-free photos would be a challenging experience for the curious.
Originally Posted By: rking This post was automatically imported from our archived forum.
Nick,
Is it ready yet? 
Absolutely fantastic idea. But please make sure the pictures are clear and large and in colour (color for you Yankees).
I did a defect recognition portion of an exam and half of the pictures I had to decipher were either blurry,dark, or black & white.
When I complained I was told that "All others get the same pictures"
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