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Re: Understanding The Human Mind [Re: starfire_xes]
    #23755980 - 10/20/16 08:08 PM (7 years, 3 months ago)

Alright here's another question:

Stuart lives in a little house on Hills drive. It is about a mile from Townsville st.

How far is Townsville st from Hills drive?

Be honest with ur spontaneous answer, serious question...


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Re: Understanding The Human Mind [Re: Prisoner#1] * 1
    #23755984 - 10/20/16 08:11 PM (7 years, 3 months ago)

Bat = ball + 1
Bat + ball = 1.10
Ball + 1 + ball = 1.10
2ball = 0.10
Ball = 0.05


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Re: Understanding The Human Mind [Re: falsereality] * 1
    #23755986 - 10/20/16 08:11 PM (7 years, 3 months ago)

To get the answer right spontaneously your brain has to work differently than everyone else brain.  This is because in those kinds of problems, the mind automatically looks for a simplified way and the straight up way the humanbrain is programmed says that it must be .10.  That is attribute substitution.  If a reasonably intelligent person thinks for a minute or two, they will get .05, but it isn't apparent at first. 


Spontaneously its a brain buster, but thought out it is a kiddie problem.  What a paradox.

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Re: Understanding The Human Mind [Re: starfire_xes] * 3
    #23755987 - 10/20/16 08:11 PM (7 years, 3 months ago)

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No it came off a psychology.  I worded it wrong at first, if you would have just answered i'm sure you would say .1.  everyone else i've asked in real did, but I haven't tried to WRIte IT OUT.





most people dont consider that the bat would have to be $1.10 if the ball was 10
cents. I did have to go through it for a couple of runs to get the right answer,
right off the top of my head I would have been wrong but a few seconds to think
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Re: Understanding The Human Mind [Re: Prisoner#1]
    #23755991 - 10/20/16 08:13 PM (7 years, 3 months ago)

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No it came off a psychology.  I worded it wrong at first, if you would have just answered i'm sure you would say .1.  everyone else i've asked in real did, but I haven't tried to WRIte IT OUT.





most people dont consider that the bat would have to be $1.10 if the ball was 10
cents. I did have to go through it for a couple of runs to get the right answer,
right off the top of my head I would have been wrong but a few seconds to think
and it's easy





Right on.  that was the gist of the problem as I explained in my last post.  I got it wrong too, by the way, the first time.


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Re: Understanding The Human Mind [Re: zZZz]
    #23755995 - 10/20/16 08:13 PM (7 years, 3 months ago)

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zZZz said:
Alright here's another question:

Stuart lives in a little house on Hills drive. It is about a mile from Townsville st.

How far is Townsville st from Hills drive?

Be honest with ur spontaneous answer, serious question...




They intersect


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Re: Understanding The Human Mind [Re: Prisoner#1]
    #23756004 - 10/20/16 08:17 PM (7 years, 3 months ago)

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starfire_xes said:
No it came off a psychology.  I worded it wrong at first, if you would have just answered i'm sure you would say .1.  everyone else i've asked in real did, but I haven't tried to WRIte IT OUT.





most people dont consider that the bat would have to be $1.10 if the ball was 10
cents. I did have to go through it for a couple of runs to get the right answer,
right off the top of my head I would have been wrong but a few seconds to think
and it's easy



because the bat is a dollar more than the ball, the ball...has to be 5 cents, because 5 cents more is ten cents. (ha, i am only just barely getting this through)

(it's nagging that i can't phrase this better...a dollar more...than the ball...the ball (to an answer) is either ten cents, off the bat, which is wrong, because the bat being a dollar more would make sum total greater than the given 1.10 amount, given that a dollar more than the ball, would be a dollar and ten cents, which clearly, along with the ball, makes the sum total 1.20, not 1.10 as a given. so the ball must be 5 cents. that's the best i can do :facepalm: i think i fucking did it. *lights imaginary cigarette*)

that is the only way my simple math can deduce this. but it's funny though...and i think i get it. but not everything that goes into this equation...not literally.


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Re: Understanding The Human Mind [Re: zZZz]
    #23756006 - 10/20/16 08:17 PM (7 years, 3 months ago)

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Ive got a similar question for y'all:

A man walks into a bar and asks the bartender for two shots of whisky and a beer. The bartender gives the man 2 beers and one shot of whiskey. What did the man originally ask the bartender for?..




two shots of whiskey and a beer.  beer doesn't come in shots.


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Re: Understanding The Human Mind [Re: koods]
    #23756013 - 10/20/16 08:19 PM (7 years, 3 months ago)

Was that really ur spontaneous answer?.. :wink:

It is wrong btw.. No one will ever get it right.. :muahaha:

Hint: the question may or may not be encoded to mean something else..


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Re: Understanding The Human Mind [Re: akira_akuma]
    #23756014 - 10/20/16 08:19 PM (7 years, 3 months ago)

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akira_akuma said:
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Prisoner#1 said:
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starfire_xes said:
No it came off a psychology.  I worded it wrong at first, if you would have just answered i'm sure you would say .1.  everyone else i've asked in real did, but I haven't tried to WRIte IT OUT.





most people dont consider that the bat would have to be $1.10 if the ball was 10
cents. I did have to go through it for a couple of runs to get the right answer,
right off the top of my head I would have been wrong but a few seconds to think
and it's easy



because the bat is a dollar more than the ball





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Re: Understanding The Human Mind [Re: starfire_xes]
    #23756018 - 10/20/16 08:20 PM (7 years, 3 months ago)

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zZZz said:
Ive got a similar question for y'all:

A man walks into a bar and asks the bartender for two shots of whisky and a beer. The bartender gives the man 2 beers and one shot of whiskey. What did the man originally ask the bartender for?..




two shots of whiskey and a beer.  beer doesn't come in shots.




That is correct, I bet u won't get the second question tho..


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Re: Understanding The Human Mind [Re: zZZz]
    #23756019 - 10/20/16 08:20 PM (7 years, 3 months ago)

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Was that really ur spontaneous answer?.. :wink:

It is wrong btw.. No one will ever get it right.. :muahaha:

Hint: the question may or may not be encoded to mean something else..




I already got it correct.  You wrote down what he originally said. :highfive:


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Re: Understanding The Human Mind [Re: starfire_xes]
    #23756027 - 10/20/16 08:23 PM (7 years, 3 months ago)

Nope :smirk:

Try again if u dare..


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Re: Understanding The Human Mind [Re: Prisoner#1]
    #23756030 - 10/20/16 08:24 PM (7 years, 3 months ago)

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because the bat is a dollar more than the ball



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Prisoner#1 said:

exactly



1.10$ = Bat and Ball (the Bat is a dollar more than the Ball -- how much is the Ball?)
the ball can't be ten cents, because adding up the bat & the ball, while the bat is a dollar more (than the ball) would make the sum total greater than the given 1.10$ amount, given that, within the sum total, a dollar more than the ball would be a dollar plus the ball's price (the ball's price doubling as you add the bat's price to the ball's), which clearly, makes the sum total 1.20$, not 1.10$; as a given; so the ball must be 5 cents.

does this goddamn make any sense, or did i get there through sheer force of idiocy?

it's still not right.

there, fixed.


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Re: Understanding The Human Mind [Re: zZZz]
    #23756036 - 10/20/16 08:27 PM (7 years, 3 months ago)

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Alright here's another question:

Stuart lives in a little house on Hills drive. It is about a mile from Townsville st.

How far is Townsville st from Hills drive?

Be honest with ur spontaneous answer, serious question...




The little house on Hills drive is about a mile, but that only means that that part of Hills drive is a mile away.  It is impossible to say how far other parts of hills drive are from Towns street, in the limit there an infinite number of answes. :highfive:

(If they aren't parallel streets OF equal length.)


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Re: Understanding The Human Mind [Re: akira_akuma]
    #23756047 - 10/20/16 08:31 PM (7 years, 3 months ago)

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because the bat is a dollar more than the ball



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exactly



1.10$ = Bat and Ball (the Bat is a dollar more than the Ball -- how much is the Ball?)
the ball can't be ten cents, because the bat being a dollar more would make the sum total greater than the given 1.10 amount, given that a dollar more than the ball would be a dollar and ten cents, which clearly, along with the ball, makes the sum total 1.20, not 1.10 as a given. so the ball must be 5 cents.

does this goddamn make any sense, or did i get there through sheer force of idiocy?

it's still not right.





what is 105 + 5?


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Re: Understanding The Human Mind [Re: starfire_xes]
    #23756054 - 10/20/16 08:33 PM (7 years, 3 months ago)

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Was that really ur spontaneous answer?.. :wink:

It is wrong btw.. No one will ever get it right.. :muahaha:

Hint: the question may or may not be encoded to mean something else..




If you say a house is on road A and the house is mile from road B, you are saying that the intersection of road A and road B is a mile away. :shrug:


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Re: Understanding The Human Mind [Re: Prisoner#1]
    #23756057 - 10/20/16 08:34 PM (7 years, 3 months ago)

i fixed my...erm...proposition. (obvious answer is obvious -- yes, you have the simplified answer. if the bat is a dollar more than the ball, and the sum total is 1.10$, the answer should be obvious -- here's why....)

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1.10$ = Bat and Ball (the Bat is a dollar more than the Ball -- how much is the Ball?)
the ball can't be ten cents, because adding up the bat & the ball, while the bat is a dollar more (than the ball) would make the sum total greater than the given 1.10$ amount, given that, within the sum total, a dollar more than the ball would be a dollar plus the ball's price (the ball's price doubling as you add the bat's price to the ball's), which clearly, makes the sum total 1.20$, not 1.10$; as a given; so the ball must be 5 cents.




goddamn it, jimminy christmas fuck.


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Re: Understanding The Human Mind [Re: koods]
    #23756063 - 10/20/16 08:37 PM (7 years, 3 months ago)

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Was that really ur spontaneous answer?.. :wink:

It is wrong btw.. No one will ever get it right.. :muahaha:

Hint: the question may or may not be encoded to mean something else..




If you say a house is on road A and the house is mile from road B, you are saying that the intersection of road A and road B is a mile away. :shrug:




koods look at my answer above.  you are on the right track.  The problem is that only the distance at one point is know--from the house on hill drive to townsville street.  If they aren't of equal length and parallel then there are an infinite number of solutions in the limit.


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Re: Understanding The Human Mind [Re: starfire_xes]
    #23756071 - 10/20/16 08:39 PM (7 years, 3 months ago)

a mile is not an exact length, it's a determination of length and/or space correlated.


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