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A quick puzzle to test your problem solving

revnort

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i made 9 guesses to confirm. still got it right.

i agree w/ this statement in the explanation: "They don’t want to hear the answer “no.” In fact, it may not occur to them to ask a question that may yield a no."
 
NorCalAthlete said:
That took about 2 seconds. And 1.5 seconds was typing.
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I didnt say it was hard.

stangmx13 said:
i made 9 guesses to confirm. still got it right.

i agree w/ this statement in the explanation: "They don’t want to hear the answer “no.” In fact, it may not occur to them to ask a question that may yield a no."
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This is more what it is about.
 
revnort said:
That's the point, it is actually about confirmation bias. :laughing
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:thumbup

But most people start off with the incorrect assumption that if we’re asking them to solve a problem, it must be a somewhat tricky problem. They come up with a theory for what the answer is. And then they make a classic psychological mistake.

PS: your confirmation bias is showing :x ;)
 
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Yakoo752 said:
:thumbup

But most people start off with the incorrect assumption that if we’re asking them to solve a problem, it must be a somewhat tricky problem. They come up with a theory for what the answer is. And then they make a classic psychological mistake.

PS: your confirmation bias is showing :x ;)
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which makes the whole premise moronic, because mine was solved by adding the first number to itself then second to itself, which isn't tricky for anybody over like 5 or six years old.
 
asthmodeus said:
which makes the whole premise moronic, because mine was solved by adding the first number to itself then second to itself, which isn't tricky for anybody over like 5 or six years old.
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but that wasn't the rule... so there's that

the fact that you thought you had a different test then others :laughing

thanks for playing :facepalm
 
Yakoo752 said:
but that wasn't the rule... so there's that

the fact that you thought you had a different test then others :laughing

thanks for playing :facepalm
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so it's testing people to see if they can differentiate 'the next number is bigger' as the rule from 'it follows a ridiculously simple pattern as it gets bigger' and i'm the dummy. sounds reasonable.
 
So after two correct guesses I answered "Double each numeral left to right." It follows the more basic rule of each larger than the other so I win.


:twofinger
 
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asthmodeus said:
so it's testing people to see if they can differentiate 'the next number is bigger' as the rule from 'it follows a ridiculously simple pattern as it gets bigger'
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is that what it's testing?

the first sentence indicates that's not what this is about

A short game sheds light on government policy, corporate America and why no one likes to be wrong.
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unless we take the bolded and apply it to you :x
 
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Meh. I got 5 No's and feel just fine. :laughing

What was interesting to me was:

1 2 2.000000000000001 = Yes
1 2 2.0000000000000001 = No

So I guess 64-bit floating point arithmetic.
 
I love how butt hurt everyone who got it wrong is.

Which proves, in part, the theory behind the test.
 
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