A test

simu · 24-09-2004 03:25AM

I got a pink wood shaver.

I'd also like to know why people were supposed to get a red hammer.

I've seen a similar test before where there was a lot of scooling down to be done and people had to name a vegetable at the end and the idea was that most people would pick a carrot because of it's long, vertical shape.

Going Demented · 24-09-2004 08:45AM

Red Hammer here

ToxicPaddy · 24-09-2004 09:53AM

Green Hammer here..

Has anyone got it right yet

Too early to read all the thread!!!!

Tox

pickarooney · 24-09-2004 10:04AM

Most people here are deliberately not picking hammer, particulary those who say "chainsaw", "hacksaw" or anything similarly specific. The test only works if you give the answer made automatically by your brain, i.e, a word-f-r-word association as opposed to thinking of an object and then giving its name. You could make a list of a hundred categories and most of the answers would be predicatable, e.g. fruit would always be apple or orange for native English speakers, vegetable is usually carrot (occasionally potato)...

Kêrmêttê · 24-09-2004 10:12AM

Matters wrote:

I thought of of Pat Kenny and Grey

Hehe! The ultimate "tool"

Somebody hates me! They've turned the radio in work over to RTE1 just now and I'm being forced to listen to that bloody spanner right now!! :eek:
help!

simu · 24-09-2004 01:22PM

pickarooney wrote:

Most people here are deliberately not picking hammer, particulary those who say "chainsaw", "hacksaw" or anything similarly specific. The test only works if you give the answer made automatically by your brain, i.e, a word-f-r-word association as opposed to thinking of an object and then giving its name. You could make a list of a hundred categories and most of the answers would be predicatable, e.g. fruit would always be apple or orange for native English speakers, vegetable is usually carrot (occasionally potato)...

Hm, but I always see things in my head before I find the word for them.

pickarooney · 24-09-2004 01:27PM

simu wrote:

Hm, but I always see things in my head before I find the word for them.

Because you're converting the word on the page to the image, seeing an associated image and then describing it - two extra steps, which negate the verbal association.