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wispfoxY'know, I wasn't actually trying to frustrate you lot with that poll.
There is no 'right' answer; indeed, I suspect that that very lack is part of the point.
That was the hardest question taken from the fluid intelligence part of the most commonly used adult intelligence test. Which my mom (a school psych) noted does not necessarily mean it's the _best_ intelligence test, of course, but is a question she uses to help explain fluid reasoning when in meetings about kids she's working with.
The speed and confidence parts were added by me. And perhaps I should not have, as that may have encouraged the belief in a 'right' answer.
Clearly I should have been more clear about there not being a 'right' answer. *wry*
There is no 'right' answer; indeed, I suspect that that very lack is part of the point.
That was the hardest question taken from the fluid intelligence part of the most commonly used adult intelligence test. Which my mom (a school psych) noted does not necessarily mean it's the _best_ intelligence test, of course, but is a question she uses to help explain fluid reasoning when in meetings about kids she's working with.
The speed and confidence parts were added by me. And perhaps I should not have, as that may have encouraged the belief in a 'right' answer.
Clearly I should have been more clear about there not being a 'right' answer. *wry*
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Date: 2008-04-09 04:03 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-04-09 07:07 pm (UTC)Clearly, it hadn't occurred to me as a possibility that people'd get frustrated. :)
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Date: 2008-04-09 04:10 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-04-09 07:12 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-04-09 05:08 pm (UTC)I can see two types of confidence: that you'd come up with a defensible, workable answer, and that you'd come up with "the right answer". And you can't be confident that you came up with the specific right answer that someone else had.
My answer was a joke answer; if this was an ancient riddle, it was probably not the "right" answer (though who knows? some of the old riddlers probably got goofy from time to time).
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Date: 2008-04-09 07:05 pm (UTC)Your comment is, however, managing to make me stare at it a lot. ;)
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Date: 2008-04-09 07:10 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-04-09 07:43 pm (UTC)Which, you know, works. (-:
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Date: 2008-04-09 07:47 pm (UTC)(Oh, come now; sure you've heard of a cruise missile.)
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Date: 2008-04-09 07:53 pm (UTC)(Don't worry, this is perfectly normal. I've learned to be very fond of surrealism, atrocious puns and the occasional improvised rap song).
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Date: 2008-04-09 08:15 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-04-09 07:57 pm (UTC)http://johnpalmer.livejournal.com/120908.html#cutid1
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Date: 2008-04-09 08:13 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-04-09 05:29 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-04-09 07:06 pm (UTC)Probably because I'm _really_ bad at riddles.
If you do come up with something, though, I'd be curious. :)
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Date: 2008-04-12 04:11 am (UTC)