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Subject:	Re: Linear Thinking - this is an interesting test
Newsgroups:	lugnet.off-topic.fun
Date:	Fri, 6 Sep 2002 13:34:37 GMT
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OK, I got that answer too. Why? That seems completely counterintuitive to me. Yet clearly it has SOMETHING to do with the subconscious or something. This 98% figure, is it just english speakers, or westerners or what?

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		Re: Linear Thinking - this is an interesting test
(...) I'm afraid that this is an email I received from my boss's wife so I have no real answers to anybody's questions. I asked her if she knew the background to it but she and her friends only have theories as to why the answer seems to be the same (...) (22 years ago, 6-Sep-02, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)

		Re: Linear Thinking - this is an interesting test
(...) Maybe math problems make us see red? Steve (22 years ago, 6-Sep-02, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)

		Re: Linear Thinking - this is an interesting test
(...) Me too. Google didn't get me anything useful, just a whole bunch of copies of the test; no source or useful speculation. Any psych majors around? James (22 years ago, 6-Sep-02, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)

		Re: Linear Thinking - this is an interesting test
(...) Dunno, but I'd hazard a guess that red hammer would be a pretty common response even without the maths questions. ROSCO (who's normal too....) (22 years ago, 6-Sep-02, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)

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		Re: Linear Thinking - this is an interesting test
Darnit. I'm normal. Peace and Long Life, Tony Alexander (22 years ago, 6-Sep-02, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)

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