Weird little quiz I found..
 

I don't know how much this is circulating so you guys may or may not have already seen it.. Sort of interesting. It is quick and work-safe if you care.

http://www.cdine.org/quiz/quiz1.html

http://www.cdine.org/quiz/quiz2.html

That is amazing!!!
Have done one like it before - what triggers your mind to think that way???

I have a feeling that it has nothing to do with the math problems at all. They are simply to get you in the habit of answering quickly and without thinking. The answers to the last question are just the most common thing first associated with the type of thing (trying not to give away the test).

Oddly, I was in the 2% for the first test, but the 98% for the second.

EDIT: I sincerely doubt the numbers are that high though. Maybe 75%.

yep, that's what happened with me, too.

2% in both :-/

I was in 2%. I thought of a blue wrench and a potato (which is a vegetable right?!)

Orange hammer. Does that put me in the 2% or the 98%? Bell pepper on the second one. I'm not sure why, I hate them.

Well, I'm now officially a sheep :p

I have a different but abnormal mind.. ppffftt.. that's common knowledge :p

interesting. I'm with the 2%'ers...but only half-way. I thought of a blue hammer.

Didn't do the second one.

i thought of a blue hammer. kind of close i guess...

Blue screwdriver.
Tomato

2%. Definately. I also scored extremely left-brained on one of those tests.

Mauve wrench and okra, but then again I make it a point to think differently than most people. ;)

I thought of a blue hammer too! And then a carrot. Predictive bastages... reading my mind. :hmm:

allright....

2% for me - woot !

*Smirks*

[btw, i thought of a blue wrench and corn]

I was in the 2% both times, I guess that makes me one in 2,500.

I always knew I was kinda special.

Oh, and here's another vote for "the maths is irrelevant".

For all the people who seem to like wallowing in their 'abnormality', 14 out of 16 people in this thread are 'abnormal', myself included.

Hmmmm...perhaps this test is somewhat less than scientific?

Or maybe the TFP Philosophy Board is a skewed sample?

:)

Perhaps you just thought you weren't thinking about it, but really you were.

yellow wrench, and potato, same as some others, maybe we think differently, in the same way heh

white screw driver,

squash.


yeah im not normal, we have learned nothing today.

I'm the 98% in both question this time,
but I did the same test half a year ago and I was the 98% in the first one and 2% in the second one.

Yay for intro level psychology. Those predictive quizzes operate on the principle of "prototypical" objects. A prototypical object is one that, in most people's minds, fully and best embodies a certain group of objects, or that they are at least the most familiar with, and stands out.

A carrot is a very "vegetably" vegetable, and stands out from all the leafy greens and everything else by being brightly coloured. Of those who don't say "carrot", the majority would probably say "lettuce", or "broccoli".

With the hammer and colour, same thing; a hammer is a basic, familiar, and very "tool-like" tool. Red is a bright colour, as well as being a primary colour. Therefore, they're both very likely to be the answer.

green hammer/celery

I knew it wasn't a good sign when I got stuck on 12 + 53. I really should go to sleep now.

I started with a grey hammer, like the one sitting on my desk, and nearly had a brain hemmorhage when I tried to say "rutabega" and "artichoke"at the same time.

its obviously not 2% its something like 40%, but as it gets more people than not they can accentuate the suggestion by saying 98/2 split.

It's quite obvious that the statistics are wrong because a hell of a lost more than 2% of you are claiming different.

pink hammer
broccoli

i thought of a red screwdriver
and cauliflower.

but i knew about this before. and i have picked carrot the very first time i took this kind of thing.

Yellow Hammer and squash

I've read that 54.8% of all statistics are made up - maybe this is a similar case?

2% for me... I always knew I was weird, but sheesh.
 

Either that, or this forum attracts the 2% of the world that thinks differetly... which I would certainly agree with.

I kinda ruined it for myself. I read everybody's responses before taking the quiz... but for what it's worth.

Orange Hammer (and I didn't do the other one).

heh 2% and 2% I guess Im abnormal thought of a thought of a green saw and a tomato

98% on the first, and 2% on the second. In the first test the answer just popped out. In the second test I was anticipating having to give an answer, so I think the anticipation altered my ability to just answer off the top of my head.

Red Hammer
Broccoli

Purple wrench....

...and a cucumber.

Maybe it works better if you read it out loud to someone?

When it comes to tools I'm normal because I thought of the Red Hammer but the veggies were not so normal, I thought of Corn. I guess sometimes I am normal and sometimes I am not.

Tomatoes aren't vegetables. To the back of the line with you.

Blue Axe is me

purple wrench and brocolli...thsi doesnt seem effective at all ..ether that or most people here have abnormal minds...

Green Ruler and a carrot. A ruler's a tool, right?

Whoah... I thought pink hammer and broccoli too. :eek: :eek: :eek:

blue screwdriver and broccoli, so 2% both times.....finally, official confirmation of my abnormality!

Blue dildo and a zucchini.

As far as abnormality goes, I own all y'all!

green wrench

i said blue screwdriver too, but then i said potato for the second test.

Purple Pliers?

It's just reinforces that quote: "97.6 percent of all statistics are made up on the spot"!

its a chain lettter, so basicly aimed for the 'simple minded' pesants of the world... so i guess if we give them red hammer shaped carrots they'd be just dandy...

The math is really irrelevant its a game of percentages just naturally ask someone to think of their favorite number 1-10 the highest percentage of people pick 7.
blue wrench and carrot o.0

blue screwdriver here too and my veggie was a beet! so odd that was the first thing to come to my mind. methinks the stats are a LITTLE off, if not i think we should all be sat down and studied :P

100% with Halx on this one.

Black screwdriver and green beans.

Incidentally, neither potatoes nor lettuce are vegetables

Me too, although I was half right on the first 1.
Shows amazing understanding of how our mind works if nothing else :thumbsup:

80% of statistics are made up on the spot, this is one of those common assossiation things, like think of a jungle animal - quick...... a lot of people will say "lion" lions don't even live in the jungle. For the record red spanner (so half right) and potato
although if i had to guess what most people would say, i would have said carrot

This is the answer! We all all somewhat skewed and beyond the normal. Don't believe ? How many normal people have you seen writing in the TFP?

My Result? A somewhat orangey shade of pink coloured post hole digger and a well roasted butternut pumpkin.

Thought of a red spanner (wrench) and a green Aubergine. (???!!!)

I think i'm part of the 98%, its just that my maths is shit.

And so is my vegetable recognition. (And typing, but I edited that out before you had a chance to comment...)

Red hammer and an orange.

I'm good at thinking of vegetables...

...nor tomatoes.

I thought of a red wrench and raddish for some reason.

Hah! I thought of a red powerdrill :cool:

Does that put me in the 98% or 2%? :confused:

no i got a pink wrench.......

I want to know what they mean by "abnormal". Is it like abnormal in a child molesty kind of way, or abnormal in a "i like experimental jazz" kinda way?

That's spooky - I was in the 2% for both as well and thought of:

A silver wrench and a potato.

Hmmm....

Black hacksaw
Brussel Sprouts

I hit both... 98% for me...


Oddly enough, the ONLY answers I've seen people give other than those are "blue screwdriver" which I've seen ehre several times, and "Tomato". It is interesting though...

blue wrench....looked at the responses before taking the second quiz

Its my understanding that this type of exercise is all about what areas of the brain you are using by doing the math problems. Its called a priming effect and, essentially, what is going on is that the neurons around the areas of the brain functioning during the math fire and prime the neurons around the area of the mind where other items are stored. One theory, I heard about this specific exercise is that the color red, the tool hammer, and the vegetable carrot tend to be the first specific item you learn as a child in their respective categories and that the math is meant to either prime the area associated to the earlier learning or to break down any thoughts in your day to day life that might otherwise pop up to biased the exercise (like if I used a screwdriver several hours before reading the quiz).

Oh yeah, I was 2% and 98%. I said squash on the second one, but I think thats cause its getting close to Halloween and I see them all over.

blue hammer also. and carrot on the second one.

red spanner and parsley D:

2% in both.

Thought of an orange wrench, and broccoli.

The stats are either wrong, or (not surprisingly) TFT has attracted "unique" individuals.

Blue Screwdriver...

between 76-83% of people say so.

Hammer and five (which isnt a color, I know...but i was confused ;))
Tomato.

Still pretty kool.

Blue screwdriver and broccoli, look out ravenradiodj

Well that makes three of us as I thought of my PINK HAMMER too, of course I was naked at the time.

red screwdriver and a zucchini

2%. Blue Hammer. But then, i've always know I'm odd.

Side note, my room mate is also a loon. He thought of a red drill.

2% on both.... blue saw and a cucumber

so are we in the 2% if we got the normal ones then?

holy crap, I did the calculations as fast as possible and it was like "think of a color and a tool"

the VERY first thing that popped in my mind was a wall painted red and a claw hammer.

RED HAMMER


scrolled down to read "red hammer"


I am in awe..........

the more I think about this, the more weird it seems. I honestly thought of RED and HAMMER at the same time. This is just freaky. I wonder why it didn't work for the rest of you guys?

I probably got every single one of the math questions wrong. I answered as fast as I read the numbers.

Red Wrench. Orange.

Very cool little test, thank you.

blue wrench and lettuce for me... 2% both times

ive done both of these before, but it didnt strike me untill they asked me about the things... then i remembered what the test was looking for and i automaticly put myself into the 98% group... lol!

before that i think i was somewhere inbetween...

mouse, white (cos that's the colour of my cursor)
and weed. if that's a veggie....
do potheads count under the conventional population?

blue wrench and a tomato.
i've always known i was weird.

I thought of a blue hammer and a potatoe.

The only reason for this is because blue is one of my favorite colors, and I absolutly love potatoes.

green wrench and celery. i hate celery.

Omg annoying argument with roommate:

His opinion: same percentage of people will answer red hammer without math questions

My opinion: no way, there is some thought priming in effect

Blue hammer, tomato.

Sources of self-selection sampling error:
People who visit TFP.
People who visit Philosophy.
People who visited this thread.
People who took the quiz.
People who chose to post their results.

The last one is the kicker, though. The 2%ers are more likely to volunteer their "unique" results than the people who answer with the predicted responses. So, yeah, while I doubt there's any significant basis for the 98:2 claim... this thread wouldn't be significant evidence against it.

I'd already taken the quiz a while back, so I was trying to remember what the "common" answers were... so did I guess "red hammer" and "carrot" because that's what I was trying to remember? or am I a boring red hammer using carrot eater?

wrench blue
carrot

guess if I average that out... I'm similar to 51% of people.

I thought of a grey calculator for the first one and zucchini for the second.
I guess a calculator is only arguably a "tool," but after all those math calculations...
and I hate zucchini

There are probably more potheads than not.

I didn't think of anything.. Must be too early.

I guess I can't exactly to it again either when I'm more awake, ha!

1st one: sorta 2%; Red Screwdriver.

didn't take the second one.

98% and 2%.

Red Hammer and Corn.

Yup... exactly what i had...
but really, i can't recall the last tim ei actually saw a red hammer.

black screwdriver and squash
so if most of us are in the 2% does that make use normal and everyone else abnormal

Hammer, Blue and Lettuce.

Blue Screwdriver and Potato here.

I'd have to guess that the test stats are wrong, or TFP is full of abnormal people. I'm leaning toward the latter...

2% for me in both..

orange hammer
beet

Excellent observation. Would you happen to be a Psychology major?

Wow you all are soo00 unique
I misread the directions at first and was thinking about the word POOP the hole time?
Once I got to the end I came up with a blue hammer and a carrot.

blue hammer and cucumber.

they might have had me on the first one if they had said name a tool and its colour, because as it asked I thought of a tool then just a colour... and I like blue :D

i really doubt it is correct 98% of the time as well.