Cognitive reflection Test, consisting of 3 trivially easy questions, developed by Professor Shane Frederick of Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) He showed that only a tiny proportion of people were able to cope with the answers, with only 17% of the respondents responding correctly to all questions, while 33% were only responding incorrectly.
What are the questions?
Here they are:
1. Rocket and ball cost a full of $1.10, the racket being $1 more costly than the ball. How much does a ball cost?
2. If it takes 5 machines 5 minutes to produce 5 gadgets, how long will it take 100 machines to produce 100 gadgets?
3. On the lake is simply a cluster of water lilies that doubles its surface all day. If covering the full lake takes 48 days, how long does it take to cover half the lake?
If 83% of American adults can't answer these 3 questions correctly, I think this fact explains Trump's choice phenomenon.
It would be worth doing specified a statistic in China and Japan. I fishy that 83% in these countries would respond correctly.
And in Poland? I'm afraid the results would be akin to the US, but possibly not.
But possibly Onetu's information, where did I get the above questions and statistics, is fake-news dropped by Russian trolls? I hope so, due to the fact that I don't think people can be stupid adequate to answer questions like this in grade 2.
Or possibly it's not Russian fake news depreciating Americans, it's Onetu's action to get readers to solve these puzzles and say to themselves: “But I am wise. Smarter than 83% of others." Well, no. These are puzzles at the level: “After the pond swims, the duck is called. What is this?”
Michał Leszczyński
