How intuition interferes with logic

**Scuba_Steve** · 19th August 2012, 09:27

Originally Posted by Woodman

Ok I admit it, fucked if i know how you guys get 5 cents.

Someone explain it for my simple mind.

it's a 1.10$ total the bat's 1$ more than the ball. So to get the 1.10$ total the ball would have to be 5c & the bat 1.05$ = 1.10$ simple easy

**Woodman** · 19th August 2012, 09:58

Originally Posted by Scuba_Steve

it's a 1.10$ total the bat's 1$ more than the ball. So to get the 1.10$ total the ball would have to be 5c & the bat 1.05$ = 1.10$ simple easy

Yup, took a while but got there eventually. My mind is not a logical one.

**scumdog** · 19th August 2012, 11:12

Originally Posted by flyingcrocodile46

Fuck all you smart arses. Even when I back checked it and found that 10 wasn't right it still seemed right and took a couple of goes to prove to myself that ten simply couldn't be right and that 5 worked properly. Dropped out of school C maths because algebra made no sense to me, but did manage to learn trigonometry (cause that made sense to me)

Yeah well I got 18% in School Cert maths - I guess that's how I figured it out

**duckonin** · 19th August 2012, 12:32

Originally Posted by scumdog

Yeah well I got 18% in School Cert maths - I guess that's how I figured it out

You do know what 2+2= though?

That was one of the 'tough' questions for entry into Police school was it not ?

Now have you improved after all these years ? On your radar screen when it says 47 would you think that was 74 ?

**scumdog** · 19th August 2012, 12:36

Originally Posted by duckonin

Now have you improved after all these years ? On your radar screen when it says 47 would you think that was 74 ?

It says what I say it does...

**mossy1200** · 19th August 2012, 12:38

At that price they sold out.

10cents cash for the ball or 5cents eftpos plus bank fees.
You could buy 2 balls for 10 cents also.

**flyingcrocodile46** · 19th August 2012, 17:13

For any that are still struggling with this... the ball costs 5 cents and the bat costs 5 cents plus the $1 more than the ball cost (=$1.05).

The exercise is designed to illustrate how our intuition interferes with and/or pre-empts our concious use of logic to accurately deduce the answer. This is done by presenting number pattens which we already associate with predetermined answers. A bit like when we are asked to evaluate alternative political or religious concepts. Our subconscious mind over rides our concious mind by way of locking onto answers and views that we have already formed.

Our subconscious actively seeks to discredit evidence that supports arguments contrary to our beliefs, and attributes more credibility than warranted to evidence that supports our beliefs. Ed is really struggling with this simple truth.

An in depth analysis of this phenomenon and how to get your brain thinking correctly is contained in the link below.
http://facingthesingularity.com/

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**Madness** · 19th August 2012, 17:17

Originally Posted by flyingcrocodile46

Ed is really struggling with this simple truth..

But what if Ed did exhaustive research and found that the average cost of a ball was in fact $4.95? Surely that would prove that we all fail miserably at comprehension.

**flyingcrocodile46** · 19th August 2012, 17:29

Originally Posted by Madness

But what if Ed did exhaustive research and found that the average cost of a ball was in fact $4.95? Surely that would prove that we all fail miserably at comprehension.

It would to ed, if he wasn't already convinced that the ball was a tree and the bat was a fish..