Posted on 08/12/2014 5:50:04 PM PDT by expat1000
There is a reason why the question below, from a Hong Kong elementary school test, is making the rounds on the internet. Most adults can't solve it – not for want of math skills, but because most of them have lost the child's ability of unconventional thinking. Instead, they have acquired the debilitating unwillingness to try a different perspective. - Anyone can misjudge the facts due to the wrong vantage point. But while some will admit their mistake and will try to look at things differently, a moral relativist will insist that his perspective doesn't need changing and will blame the lack of solutions on the unknowable nature of the universe. He will then devise far-fetched schemes and erroneous complex formulas explaining why things are the way they are. It may be entertaining, but it will not lead to the right answer.
This test problem is, in fact, an optical illusion; it misleads us into judging the reality from the wrong perspective. In this sense, it is akin to agenda-driven movies, political speeches, media editorials, college courses, and writings by "progressive" economists, who, knowingly or not, blind us to simple facts, causing us to make wrong choices that benefit their cause to our detriment.
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Saw it a while ago.
Head slapped.
meht sees elbat eht ssorca yug eht sa sgniht ees ot si nossel eht fo tcejbo eht
Seemed pretty obvious to me ::shrug::
This is actually really poor pedagogy. Out of nearly 10K kids that took the test only about 12% of them got the answer correct (Pure chance on a question with 6 multiple choice answers) because it is beyond the ability of a 4 year-old to think like this. The question was supposed to determine whether or not children could count to 100 not think about solution to odd problems
So adults should not feel bad either. The question is misleading because it does not tell you there is an issue with the problem. We do not teach people to do math upside down and backwards.
Me too.Don’t see all the fuss & don’t believe the 1%.
Me too.Don’t see all the fuss & don’t believe the 12%.
...dumb dumb dumb dumb DUMB!
...dumb dumb dumb dumb DUMB!
Second from the right...
VERY GOOD!
Ok, here’s my excuse, I kept seeing it as a car parked on a piano keyboard, mkay?
87. Upside down. Took about 3 seconds, but I’m not 4 years old, not for a long time now.
It was posted here a few weeks back. Got the answer in under 10 seconds. Of course, I’m used to reading upside-down and backwards having done so in the past with my kids.
I chose 87...it is evident that the numbers are upside down from this perspective.....i used to sell books and when I showed their contents to customers, they were always upside down to me...I could read them very well!!!
First graders are not 4 years old.
The children take this test the year before the enter 1st grade to achieve a placement in ability banded schools. So 5 year-old kids for the most part
But depending on their birthday some of them could have been 4
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