"I figured we'd be writing mock practices and see other people's work," Mr. DiNapoli said.
To reinforce the training interviewers had received and to reduce potential bias in questioning, the training also involved mock or practice field interviewing, during which each of the research assistants interviewed 3 women using the relevant interview language.
On the day of her interview, Ms. Williams deftly maneuvered a forklift around the West Town project's mock warehouse, practicing moving boxes of iced coffee and pineapple juice.
In 1988, Neil Young mocked the practice in This Note's for You: "Ain't singin' for Pepsi/ Ain't singin' for Coke/ I don't sing for nobody/ Makes me look like a joke".
The interpretation according to which Plato is mocking etymological practice, although not demonstrably wrong, may be suspected of crediting him with an anachronistic degree of insight into historical linguistics.
Elektra Records' Peter Lubin commented that "to get videos out of them was a major ... undertaking and it only got worse over time", citing the fact that Thompson refused to lip-sync; the video for "Here Comes Your Man" features Thompson and Deal opening their mouths as the vocals are being heard, mocking the practice.
In the mock-scanner practice session subjects learned that during DirBa's red-light periods the counter increased 2 cents if the subject responded on the signaled side, regardless of subsequent audio-visual consequences (Fig. 2B); the latter were identical in each DecBa-DirBa pair.
Mocks and practice papers are so you can see where you need to improve and the areas you need to work on.
In a mock dentist's practice a mop-haired teenager leans over a classmate's open jaw, muttering something about "adjusting the rheostat".
Nonetheless, both Ms. Richardson and Ms. Sortino advised proper preparation in the form of mock interviews to practice handshake, eye contact, voice inflection and knowledge of a particular institution.
