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Can you explain what MIT can't explain? Try answering the following question....Subject: Take This Test......I'm 98%At the end of this message, you are asked a question. Answer it immediately. Don't stopand think about it. Just say the first thing that pops into your mind. This is a fun "test"...AND kind of spooky at the same time! Give it a try, then e-mail it around (including back to me) and you'll see how many people you know fall into the same percentage as you.Be sure to put in the subject line if you are among the 98% or the 2%. You'll understandwhat that means after you finish taking the test. Now...just follow the instructions asquickly as possible. Do not go to the next calculation before you have finished the previous one.. You do not ever need to write or remember the answers, just do it usingyour mind. You'll be surprised. Start: How much is: 15 + 63 + 5689 + 212 + 5375 + 2625 + 52

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stefanjanssen855783left a comment

If you're still reading the comments on this topic, I would very much like to know if this really is an MIT-test and how you obtained it. I have never seen this website, so I don't know how communication between members works here. I'll just check this comments section evry now and again :-). Thanks in advance.
01 / 23 / 2009
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jaknowlden replied:

It seems very unlikely this is from MIT. Here's a post from 2005 about it ( http://thelanguageguy.blogspot.com/20... ). I recently received this in email format and subsequently put up this site ( http://jaknowlden.github.com/98-percent/ ) to collect some metrics since I knew it couldn't be true. 150+ samples so far; ~21% said "red hammer". ~50% said hammer.
07 / 17 / 2010

janettecortezleft a comment

i thought of a pencil as tool and blue as color
08 / 10 / 2008
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bryamonleft a comment

Blue Wrench, very little hesitation
04 / 20 / 2008
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bankdraftleft a comment

It works because your mind is so preoccupied that you pick a color -- red being the most common or at least a 'known' color so that to arrive at any other color other than red you must 'go through' red in order to get to another color. Same process for hammer .
06 / 03 / 2007
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hammerleft a comment

So... Is red the most 'popular' color and 'hammer' the most common tool??
05 / 19 / 2007
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