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| You Are Incredibly Logical |
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The one thing that bothered me about this quiz is that it didn't say how many I got correct. I assume I got all of the answers correct, though. How about you?
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Posted on: September 7, 2007 10:59 AM, by "GrrlScientist"
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| You Are Incredibly Logical |
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The one thing that bothered me about this quiz is that it didn't say how many I got correct. I assume I got all of the answers correct, though. How about you?
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Yep, we're both spectacularly logical... but it does not help bronchitis to vanish... at the risk of sounding like a mother hen, I hope you're drinking tons of water... it helps my spouse with his fairly regular bronchial attacks, at least...
cluck cluck cluck and best wishes for fast recovery...
ps. remember that chocolate has zinc, important for good physical & mental health...
Posted by: certhia | September 7, 2007 11:26 AM
Q5's a bit dodgy: how many socks do I need to take to get a pair? Precisely 2, because my socks go into the drawer bundled up into pairs with their playmates (don't most people pair their socks before putting them away?). How many shoes do I need to take to be sure of getting a pair? Assuming they're randomised and I can't tell anything by touch, etc., I'd say 9, because the first 8 could all be left shoes, so I need at least one right shoe! Or perhaps the question-setter has identical left and right feet? And that still doesn't guarantee that the socks will match the shoes -- blue socks with brown shoes, yuk!
Posted by: Ten toes on two feet | September 7, 2007 12:07 PM
Get well, I like your blog.
Posted by: H.Claus | September 7, 2007 1:11 PM
I got the same score and I spent enough time thinking about them that I'm pretty sure I got all of them correct. Except for the QUIZ written as UYMD question, at which point I just guessed randomly.
Posted by: Ben | September 7, 2007 1:42 PM
When I changed a known correct answer to a wrong answer I became Pretty Logical. I did this for all the questions, so when you are Incredibly Logical you answered all the questions correctly.
Posted by: Johan | September 7, 2007 2:06 PM
For the QUIZ problem look up caesar cipher.
Posted by: Guillaume Theoret | September 7, 2007 2:12 PM
#5 is clearly wrong.
you would need at least 22 socks to be sure but there is no 5 shoes, 22 sock choice
Posted by: T_U_T | September 7, 2007 2:50 PM
Well it says I'm incredibly logical.
Oh yes, get ye to a physic, bronchitis isn't good for you.
Posted by: Chris' Wills | September 7, 2007 6:08 PM
When I changed a known correct answer to a wrong answer I became Pretty Logical. I did this for all the questions, so when you are Incredibly Logical you answered all the questions correctly.
Doesn't pan out for me. If I change from a known correct to a known incorrect, the result was still Incredibly Logical. Changing two answers resulted in a downgrade to Pretty Logical. Thus, Incredibly Logical covered both 7 and 8 correct answers.
Posted by: JP | September 7, 2007 6:28 PM
My experimenting went the same as JP's- it takes two incorrect answers to go from "incredibly logical" to "pretty logical".
For Ben: it's a simple substitution cipher where each letter is replaced by the one 4 letters later in the alphabet. thus, A becomes E, B becomes, F, Z becomes D and so forth. HEAD then becomes LIEH.
Posted by: Ktesibios | September 7, 2007 11:27 PM