Red hammer

[Disco Dan]

NOTE: This is crazy ....you have got to try it!
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> > This is a fun "test"... AND kind of spooky at the same time!
> >Give it a try, then e-mail it around (including back to me) and you'll
> >see how many people you know fall into the same percentage as you. Be
> >sure to put in the subject line if you are among the 98% or the 2%.!
> >You'll understand what that means after you finish taking the test".
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> > You just thought about a red hammer! , didn't you?
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> > If this is not your answer, you are among 2% of people who have
> >a different, if not abnormal, mind.
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> > 98% of the folks would answer a red hammer while doing this
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> > If you do not believe this, pass it around and you'll see.
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> > Be sure to put in the subject line if you are among the 98% or
> >the 2% and send to everyone, including the person that sent it to you
> I said an orange Hammer which makes me in the 2% of colour but i got
>the right tool.

[Disco Dan]

*mummy im scared* hehe weird stuff going on there....

[MyGSXF:Me]

OH MY FUCKING GOD........... I said RED HAMMER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

WTF??????????????????????????????????????????????? ??????

[Jantar]

Black drill, Oh well I never was the conformist.

[Highlander]

Black drill, Oh well I never was the conformist.

What is the odds of us both picking the same thing?
Clearly you're as sick as me.
Matbe it's something in the water.

[James Deuce]

Blue pipe wrench.

[paturoa]

last time I said orange hammer

http://www.kiwibiker.co.nz/forums/sh...ad.php?t=29203

[Jantar]

Something wrong with the statistics of 98% to 2%. If that was correct then the probability of 3 consective answers not matching is only 8 in a miilion.
Or 4 consective answers not matching 16 : 100,000,000

[SpinFx]

A red Hammer, very interesting.......try this......
SAY SILK

SAY SILK

SAY SILK

WHAT DO COWS DRINK ?


WATER

[MyGSXF:Me]

Well.. so far.. 4 'abnormal' answers.. & hey.. whadda ya know.. they're ALL from MALES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[James Deuce]

You can really see how much NZ has changed when a Social Worker takes a psych test and comes out "normal".

[Quartermile]

Well.. so far.. 4 'abnormal' answers.. & hey.. whadda ya know.. they're ALL from MALES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Yea well I got the red but I got a saw but that dosn't make me gay

[xwhatsit]

Well I got a red hammer -- and was very surprised. What on earth would make me think of a red hammer from all those sums? So I did some googling, and found this:

My friend Dr. Stephen Burton, a psychiatrist from London, is visiting me at the moment. I just found the 98%/2% thing on AmericaBlog.

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I demanded an explanation from him, he being a brain scientist and all, as to why 98% of the people who try the test think of a red hammer. He says he knows why, and will tell me shortly as soon as he finished a little thingy he's working on.

Please stand by...

(Time passes...)

Okay, according to Stephen, the deal is that repetitive tasks bring you into the now and bring you away from preconceptions. Under those circumstances, when told unexpectedly to think of a color and a tool, you are more likely to come up with the statistically most common responses.

In other words, the boring long list of caluclations are pretty much irrelevant except for the fact that they are boring and repetitive tasks which serve the purpose of bringing you "into the moment", making you disinclined to ruminate on what your answer to the color/tool question will be. And once your mind has been so preset, when you are asked the color/tool question, you will go to the answer that is statistically most common. It doesn't have to be a color and a tool. It could be a pet (likely "dog", I should think), or a bird (I've no idea what would be the likely answer here).

There's nothing magical about "red" or "hammer". And there's nothing magical about the specific calculations you are asked to do. It's simply that if you ask people, after a series of repetitive tasks to name a color, 98% of the people you ask will say red. If you ask for a tool, they will, usually, say hammer.

[Daffyd]

I got the red hammer. Do I get a prize?

[MyGSXF:Me]

You can really see how much NZ has changed when a Social Worker takes a psych test and comes out "normal".

One problem with your theory though sweets.. I ain't no social worker..