NationStates Jolt Archive

Obviously, you already did this test.

This test is about adding up a few numbers.

I received this test again this morning by email and I thought, 'oh a nice subject for a thread…'

Now … here is the actual test:

• You’ll receive a short list of calculations.
• Do not go to the next calculation before you have finished the previous one..
• You do not ever need to write or remember the answers, just do it using your mind


Start

How much is:

15 + 6

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3 + 56

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89 + 2

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12 + 53

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75 + 26

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25 + 52

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63 + 32

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It’s almost done, one more…

123 + 5

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And now QUICK! Think about a color and a tool….

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One is wondering why all this calculations are needed. I’m wondering how it works and if there are similar games like this one.

It seems that most people are answering the same and I have to say I tried this one out in a small office with 50 people and about 40 selected ‘red hammer’.

According the mail, about 98% would think about a red hammer.

Btw, I was thinking of a 'green screwdriver', but what was your answer?

And anyone has an explanation how it is working?

I found a link about some study:

http://scienceblogs.com/cognitivedaily/2006/04/casual_fridays_turns_out_were.php

Purple hammer.... and what would that say about me?

I think most people will think "hammer", siomply because it's one of the oldest and simplest tools.

Purple hammer.... and what would that say about me?

I think most people will think "hammer", siomply because it's one of the oldest and simplest tools.

Silver Hammer FTW. Mainly because I've seen this before and knew I was expected to say red hammer.

Green wrench, though I yelled at myself for accidentally adding a couple of the equations incorrectly at first.

I would have expected that people would select blue as colour.

'Cause there are several studies that indicate that 'blue' is the most favourite colour among people.

There's a scientific reason for it, I learned it at school, but I forgot. :)

I like blue the most as well, still, I selected 'green'.

Pale green ... and a chisel in one hand, hammer in the other.

I tried to identify which of the two tools I'd thought of first, I think it was chisel but hammer was always going to follow close on that.

So it sort of half-worked for me. It might work better if you make the second sentence of the OP less revealing. Being asked for the colour and the tool should come without warning perhaps ...?

I'm guessing that doing mental arithmetic relies on very old habits (primary school) so the colour you guess is one of the first ones you learnt (primary, red blue or yellow probably) and the tool also one of the stereotypical ones which you'd learnt the shape of before being allowed to use it.

80% of people learnt red as their first named colour and the hammer as their first named tool? Seems a bit high ...

Green wrench, though I yelled at myself for accidentally adding a couple of the equations incorrectly at first.

I don't think it does matter. I assume the calculations are just needed for distracting reasons.

"gray SNES".

Hey, it's a tool for unlocking happiness.

Black scythe, but then again I've always been a bit weird.

Blue Newt Gingrich.

...

What?

Yellow screwdriver.

Black Bush
What a TOOL

Blue Newt Gingrich.

...

What?

Oh come on, Lunatic...you can do better than that. Bad form. Bad form.

Blue wrench.

Red hammers are ugly.

Oh come on, Lunatic...you can do better than that. Bad form. Bad form.

Well, it was the first thing.

Upon further thought, I might have gone with a magenta Britney Spears. :P

Red spade.

I'm 50% original. :p

I was thinking of the green scissors which are on the desk in front of me.

Blue, Keyboard. That may be because I'm sitting next to a keyboard, which has a blue-lighted crystal display. I'll play some Chopin for you all.

Yeah, thought of red hammer. But then I was like, nah fuck that's what they want me to think of..
So then I thought of an orange spade.

I actually thought red hammer... Why?

a blue one of these

http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/41QMpQrX8YL._AA280_.jpg

i think in pictures... didn't know what its called (till i googled it)... its a jig saw apparently