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underpants

(182,767 posts)
Thu May 25, 2017, 08:39 AM May 2017

The Jack, Anne, and George test - your day is ruined

Jack is looking at Anne, but Anne is looking at George. Jack is married, but George is not. Is a married person looking at an unmarried person?

A: Yes
B: No
C: Cannot be determined




The answer is here
https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/science/2016/mar/28/did-you-solve-it-the-logic-question-almost-everyone-gets-wrong


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The Jack, Anne, and George test - your day is ruined (Original Post) underpants May 2017 OP
Cripes! I got it right!!! Sinistrous May 2017 #1
Well done underpants May 2017 #2
That's a bullshit question, and poorly worded Blue_Tires May 2017 #3
Mike Pence demands they all be standing in seperate rooms. nt Tommy_Carcetti May 2017 #4
LOL underpants May 2017 #5

Blue_Tires

(55,445 posts)
3. That's a bullshit question, and poorly worded
Thu May 25, 2017, 10:35 AM
May 2017

Nevermind the fact that the clickbaity headline always gives it away when it practically **SCREAMS** and **COMMANDS** you to select the least intuitive answer, which would be 'A'... For the record, I hate the way these things are set up even though I score better than average.

Full disclosure: I chose 'B' because even though I knew the overwhelming likelihood that the answer was 'A', I wasn't going to select it if I couldn't arrive at that conclusion by my own reasoning... And 'C' was always the sucker's answer because why would they go through the trouble of creating a sticky logic question only to not give enough information to solve it? I'm interested to know what the split would have been if there were only the 'A' and 'B' choices...

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