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    a Dagblog Lateral Thinking Quiz

    By we are stardust on Mon, 04/25/2011 - 10:15pm |

    On my online journey the past two days to collect info for a sort of off-beat diary, I came across this Lateral Thinking Quiz.  I thought it might tickle some of you.  If I tell my results now, it will give at least one broad hint, so I'll keep quiet.  Because of that, you may want to avoid any comments generated so that you aren't influenced by others' experiences.

    I will say, one question and its answer pretty much pissed me off, but even the joke skewering of it would give away the 'right' answer.  My comment would start, "I wanted to hit the test designers with _________."

    The questions are supposed to be designed around the question of 'what do we read' v. 'what do our preconceptions cause us to think we've read?'

    Here's the Lateral Thinking page.    http://www.folj.com/lateral/

    The logic problems are here for extra credit; and the More button has...uh...more.   Gradient buttons are available.  ;o)

    Have fun, and don't lie if you give your results; we have access to pages about folks who will lie to impress us...heh, heh, heh...    Cool

     

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    p,s. Notice that there are Hint buttons to the left of the Solution buttons.  (Kinda like a Life-line call...)

    And crap; I'm stuck on a geometrical puzzle, and failing badly...Illogical Stardust.


    by we are stardust on Mon, 04/25/2011 - 10:23pm

    Oh this is silly, everybody knows that women cannot be carpenters!


    by Richard Day on Mon, 04/25/2011 - 11:39pm

    Shhhhhhhh!  I wuz one, Dick.  I'll show ya my T-square if you'll show me yours....


    by we are stardust on Mon, 04/25/2011 - 11:43pm

    Whaddaya mean, DDay?!? Karen was a Carpenter!

    http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.carpenterstribute.com/kar...

     


    by SleepinJeezus on Tue, 04/26/2011 - 8:34am

    stardust, totally OT I know, but I was wondering if you picked your current handle based on anything in particular that you might have read?  These days I'm reading The New Universe and the Human Future, by Nancy Ellen Abrams and Joel Primack.  The descriptive text on some of the latest theories of cosmology are about as clear as any I've seen plus there are really cool computer simulated images and a Q&A for dummies like me.  And it's short.  There is a chapter called "we are stardust" which of course made me think of you and wonder. 


    by AmericanDreamer on Tue, 04/26/2011 - 11:40am

    I chose it from a line in Joni Mitchell's Woodstock tune, "We are stardust, we are golden."  The book sounds great; I had blogged at the Cafe about the Herschel DeepSpace telescpe, though.  It sees with infrared past the dust and bright objects deep into star-forming regions.  The images from the telemetry aren't as gorgeous as the Hubble photos, but are gold to cosmologists.  The nearest star-forming region is in the constellation Orion, I think.  Anyhoo, I have a bit about it on my Posterous site; you might like it.  ;o)

    http://wendyedavis.posterous.com/?page=3


    by we are stardust on Tue, 04/26/2011 - 11:55am