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joeblow
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Good one. Took me 35-40 seconds though.
To make this thread Laker related.... uhm, Pig Miller. |
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K28
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| 5 seconds...too easy. |
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| Darn it. I totally failed |
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Why would that be on a math quiz?
Nevermind. Looks like it was simply a question on an admissions test and the American reporter saw numbers and automatically assumed - math. 
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Roger O. Thornhill
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| (bleep) those sneaky test-writers. |
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| Yeah pretty easy once you flip it upside down. If you go right-side up, and left to right, you will never get it. |
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| leor_77 wrote: | | Yeah pretty easy once you flip it upside down. If you go right-side up, and left to right, you will never get it. |
That's what I was trying. I figured it had to be a pattern |
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| kray28_ wrote: | | 5 seconds...too easy. |
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| Aussiesuede wrote: | Why would that be on a math quiz?
Nevermind. Looks like it was simply a question on an admissions test and the American reporter saw numbers and automatically assumed - math. |
Exactly
Whether or not it's on a math quiz makes all the difference on how I would approach solving/answering it
It makes no sense on a math quiz and I would think could even be considered unfair or a trick question |
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| Got it immediately. Yay I passed 4th grade in hong kong |
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That question is a bunch of fooey.
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| It might take younger children less time to answer the question than educated adults. An educated adult would immediately start searching for a mathematical pattern; in less time a child would literally frame the correct answer. |
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| angrypuppy wrote: | | It might take younger children less time to answer the question than educated adults. An educated adult would immediately start searching for a mathematical pattern; in less time a child would literally frame the correct answer. |
Makes you think about whether educated equals intelligent.
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I can imagine some Chinese kids were funneled into a trade school program at age 6 cause they got that question wrong.
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| kikanga wrote: | | I can imagine some Chinese kids were funneled into a blender at age 6 cause they got that question wrong. |
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| angrypuppy wrote: | | It might take younger children less time to answer the question than educated adults. An educated adult would immediately start searching for a mathematical pattern; in less time a child would literally frame the correct answer. |
The labeling of this as a math problem is important. That's a prime -- it sets up the way you are going to approach it. Once you see it, you immediately start thinking about it as a math problem -- you look for a numeric pattern, and lose focus on the visual patterns.
So for those of you complaining about it not being a math problem - that mislabeling is the whole point here. Even putting it in terms of a Hong Kong elementary school question (which is almost certainly made up) is part of the priming. |
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So no one has made a crack about Asian drivers and the perfectly parked car yet? LG, I am disappoint.
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| This isn't a math question, it's more lateral thinking. |
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| Why isn't this a math problem? You have to recognise the visual and then figure out the order of numbers in the eighties. |
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Never thought to turn the numbers upside down. Never would have.
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| LarryCoon wrote: | | angrypuppy wrote: | | It might take younger children less time to answer the question than educated adults. An educated adult would immediately start searching for a mathematical pattern; in less time a child would literally frame the correct answer. |
The labeling of this as a math problem is important. That's a prime -- it sets up the way you are going to approach it. Once you see it, you immediately start thinking about it as a math problem -- you look for a numeric pattern, and lose focus on the visual patterns.
So for those of you complaining about it not being a math problem - that mislabeling is the whole point here. Even putting it in terms of a Hong Kong elementary school question (which is almost certainly made up) is part of the priming. |
Agreed. I got it pretty quick, but I happen to be reading a mensa puzzle book off and on lately, which has sort of recently trained me to look for a trick and multiple angles of approach if the answer isn't instantaneously obvious. I would probably take 4 or 5 times as long if I wasn't recently doing the book. Also (and separately) I was primed probably to disregard the label somewhat more than I would have otherwise just because I sort of want to mentally attack a puzzle instead of passively read an article, which is probably my pre-book mode. |
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joeblow
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| Shlumpledink wrote: | | Got it immediately. Yay I passed 4th grade in hong kong |
But you failed the Hong Kong reading test. The article says the question was for future 1st graders, not 4th graders. |
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| jodeke wrote: | | Never thought to turn the numbers upside down. Never would have. |
Nice honest response. I didn't thought of that also until I read the answer. |
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More than 5 and less than 10 seconds.
Reminded me of an LSAT question. |
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