I D.A.R.E you to take this test
Tuesday, October 14, 2008
i've got some really simple but interesting test of human nature for everyone.
I have only two terribly easy instructions, ie,
1)Read the situational excerpt below (italized).
2)Take note of what is the first thing that came into your mind.
Be honest about it (as the saying goes, lie to all except one ownself).
Well, really simple isn't it?
A father and a son are driving down the road. The car collides with a tree and the father is killed.
The boy is rushed to the hospital where he is prepared for emergency surgery.
On entering the surgery suite, the surgeon says,
"I can't operate on this boy. He's my son."
What was the first thing that came into your mind?
"How is it possible for the boy to be the surgeon's son? Didn't it say that the father was killed??"
My question back to you is,
- Why is it not possible for the surgeon to be a female, to be the boy's mother?
- Its is also possible that the 'father' referred to in the passage was someone else's father and the son being someone else's son. It was not mentioned that they are the father and son of one another.
But well, you have reacted what most of everyone else's would have reacted as well;
i did too..
what we have displayed are cognitive biasness, as part of our nature, where we tend to make errors based on cognitive factors.
Cognition is the way we used and apply our common knowledge logical, explaining why and how things happen around us.
Alexia quotes for The Day;
Each time we are faced with any complex problems, just remind ourselves that there's always more than one way to look at each time; and you'll never know when you might just discover yourself having overlooking certain precious treasures in your life...
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