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== not well THOuGht out...? == |
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I have read this article about half a dozen times, and it makes no sense whatsoever. |
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Firstly, I find the starting conditions self-contradictory. It is asserted that the black circle is a THOG, a THOG having exactly one of the stated properties. The black circle has two of the specified properties...it is a circle an it is black, therefore it is not a THOG. |
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Furthermore, none of the shapes are THOGs because they all have exactly two properties. |
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The only way I can make any sense of this is by boiling the question down to "which of the other shapes shares exactly one property with the black circle?" In this case, it works, the black square and the white circle share exactly one property, and the white square is the odd-one-out. This seems like a fairly trivial logic puzzle to me. |
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As far as I can tell, there are three possibilities here: |
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1) The article is badly worded. |
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2) The article and the THOG problem in general are designed to covertly elicit some other response from the subject, which is the REAL focus of the test. |
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3) I'm being remarkably stupid, and I just don't "get it". |
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I'm perfectly prepared to admit that 3) is what's going on. In fact, I'd be delighted if someone would shoot me down in flames and explain the puzzle in simple step-by-step terms. |
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[[Special:Contributions/82.3.144.140|82.3.144.140]] ([[User talk:82.3.144.140|talk]]) 17:59, 22 December 2012 (UTC) |
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not well THOuGht out...?
I have read this article about half a dozen times, and it makes no sense whatsoever.
Firstly, I find the starting conditions self-contradictory. It is asserted that the black circle is a THOG, a THOG having exactly one of the stated properties. The black circle has two of the specified properties...it is a circle an it is black, therefore it is not a THOG. Furthermore, none of the shapes are THOGs because they all have exactly two properties. The only way I can make any sense of this is by boiling the question down to "which of the other shapes shares exactly one property with the black circle?" In this case, it works, the black square and the white circle share exactly one property, and the white square is the odd-one-out. This seems like a fairly trivial logic puzzle to me.
As far as I can tell, there are three possibilities here:
1) The article is badly worded. 2) The article and the THOG problem in general are designed to covertly elicit some other response from the subject, which is the REAL focus of the test. 3) I'm being remarkably stupid, and I just don't "get it".
I'm perfectly prepared to admit that 3) is what's going on. In fact, I'd be delighted if someone would shoot me down in flames and explain the puzzle in simple step-by-step terms. 82.3.144.140 (talk) 17:59, 22 December 2012 (UTC)