Critics have called him zany, an asset to the show, authentic, a cliché, and yet to serve a purpose, with Stuart Heritage from The Guardian calling for him to be axed.
But these tests also serve a purpose beyond eliciting an angry response from the U.S. and the international community.
Newspapers and magazines serve a purpose by culling the useful information from the avalanche of noise, but they too are going the way of the dodo bird.
The facilities don't really serve a purpose apart from give the opportunity for players to have photographs taken in large jucuzzis.
De Beauvoir was far from perfect, but she served a purpose for a movement that needed her as much as she needed them.
But cheap tricks like Trump's live, prime-time Supreme Court announcement do serve a purpose: they distract the public from everything else he's doing.
So I think I'm serving a purpose that comes from a particular perspective, whereas another DJ will deploy another".
But his anonymity also serves a purpose: it prevents readers from psychologizing him and attributing his views to depression, trauma, or some other aspect of his personality.
It refers to an evolutionary trait that comes to serve a different purpose from its original function.
He dropped out, "sadly", he says, although he believes that, even for a short time, college served a purpose, giving him a breather from a too-fast trajectory into working life.
It appears as though these recommendations function as a separate algorithm, but serve a similar purpose from a user experience perspective.
