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07/09/2009 06:04:33 PM · #1 |
Some may have received this email or seen a version of it before. When it showed up in my inbox today I decided to take the test. I consider myself observant so when I got the answer wrong it made me wonder how closely do I look at photographs when I vote.
Preschoolers all over the United States
were shown this picture and asked the same question.
90% of the preschoolers gave the correct answer.
So here is the photograph and question. What say you?
Which way is the bus below traveling?
To the left or to the right?
Can't make up your mind?
Look carefully at the picture again.
Still don't know?
If you have seen this before you can give your answer but don't tell others why. Lets see how many get it right or wrong.
Scott.
Message edited by author 2009-07-09 18:06:08. |
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07/09/2009 06:13:23 PM · #2 |
right.
eta: it's been a while since I boarded a bus.
Message edited by author 2009-07-09 18:15:56. |
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07/09/2009 06:14:50 PM · #3 |
| i seriously cannot answer this question. I'd like to know the correct answer. |
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07/09/2009 06:16:44 PM · #4 |
It's traveling left, and there's an obvious reason why :-)
R. |
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07/09/2009 06:17:11 PM · #5 |
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07/09/2009 06:17:15 PM · #6 |
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07/09/2009 06:18:48 PM · #7 |
right, because i can not see door.
Message edited by author 2009-07-09 18:18:58. |
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07/09/2009 06:19:50 PM · #8 |
Originally posted by zxaar:
right, because i can not see door. |
Jejeje, depends on which country you're in, doesn't it?
R. |
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07/09/2009 06:21:16 PM · #9 |
Originally posted by Bear_Music:
Originally posted by zxaar:
right, because i can not see door. |
Jejeje, depends on which country you're in, doesn't it?
R. |
i thought about it, and this is what makes this question fuzzy.
i am in japan so must be right. if i were in europe, it would be left.
Message edited by author 2009-07-09 18:21:42. |
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07/09/2009 06:21:59 PM · #10 |
Originally posted by zxaar:
Originally posted by Bear_Music:
Originally posted by zxaar:
right, because i can not see door. |
Jejeje, depends on which country you're in, doesn't it?
R. |
i thought about it, and this is what makes this question fuzzy.
i am in japan so must be right. When i were in europe, it would be left. |
Unless you are in the UK, then it would be right, US - left, Singapore, right, Norway, left . . . .
Message edited by author 2009-07-09 18:22:43. |
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07/09/2009 06:22:10 PM · #11 |
| That's a crappy drawing of a bus, and obviously the ugly sucker is not traveling anywhere because it's sitting still! |
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07/09/2009 06:22:28 PM · #12 |
| Rightt.... i was thinking of a bus in the UK. ;) |
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07/09/2009 06:23:10 PM · #13 |
Originally posted by mpeters:
Rightt.... i was thinking of a bus in the UK. ;) |
Bah, it's traveling left in the UK too. Blimey bastards aren't smart enough for doors.
run away! |
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07/09/2009 06:24:51 PM · #14 |
that is the worst drawn bus i've ever seen in my entire life. it's more like a spaceship dropping circles of death on us poor, unsuspecting earthlings. it's not moving left or right because it's hovering in place.
now, someone photoshop godzilla driving the silly thing and let's be done with it.
edited to add:
i drew it to match the quality of the bus drawing... actually, it was the best i could do with a touch pad and my severe lack of artistic ability.
Message edited by author 2009-07-09 18:55:16. |
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07/09/2009 06:24:59 PM · #15 |
Originally posted by zxaar:
right, because i can not see door. |
Wouldn't it be going left then? |
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07/09/2009 06:28:48 PM · #16 |
Originally posted by sprite777:
Originally posted by zxaar:
right, because i can not see door. |
Wouldn't it be going left then? |
He's in Japan, they drinve on the left side of the road and sit on the right side of the vehicle. |
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07/09/2009 06:32:44 PM · #17 |
Originally posted by K10DGuy:
Originally posted by mpeters:
Rightt.... i was thinking of a bus in the UK. ;) |
Bah, it's traveling left in the UK too. Blimey bastards aren't smart enough for doors.
run away! |
driver might be driving in reverse gear and wondering these bastards have made so many gears for reversing and only 1 for driving. |
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07/09/2009 06:33:46 PM · #18 |
Originally posted by zxaar:
Originally posted by K10DGuy:
Originally posted by mpeters:
Rightt.... i was thinking of a bus in the UK. ;) |
Bah, it's traveling left in the UK too. Blimey bastards aren't smart enough for doors.
run away! |
driver might be driving in reverse gear and wondering these bastards have made so many gears for reversing and only 1 for driving. |
hahahhaahahaha. Please. Stop. My stomach. |
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07/09/2009 06:33:55 PM · #19 |
Originally posted by scarbrd:
Originally posted by sprite777:
Originally posted by zxaar:
right, because i can not see door. |
Wouldn't it be going left then? |
He's in Japan, they drinve on the left side of the road and sit on the right side of the vehicle. |
:-D
right side of vehicle would be outside of vehicle. But in japan anything is possible.
:-D |
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07/09/2009 06:41:43 PM · #20 |
Originally posted by Bear_Music:
Originally posted by zxaar:
right, because i can not see door. |
Jejeje, depends on which country you're in, doesn't it?
R. |
Your right Robert, it does depend on the country. That's why I emphasized 'United States'.
Preschoolers all over the United States
were shown this picture and asked the same question.
90% of the preschoolers gave the correct answer.
My answer in when I viewed the question was "forward" (lol). Knowing that was not one of the two answers to choose from. Being honest I didn't think about look for the door as a way of determining the direction of travel. And that's what made me think - do I take the proper amount of time when viewing a photograph I vote on.
Something to think about.
Message edited by author 2009-07-09 18:43:39. |
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07/09/2009 06:47:12 PM · #21 |
| Thank goodness people quit entering bus pictures at DPC! :) |
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07/09/2009 06:49:14 PM · #22 |
Originally posted by mpeters:
Thank goodness people quit entering bus pictures at DPC! :) |
hahaha.
I was about to post:
While it's an amusing puzzle, the number of photographs that rely on THIS kind problem solving observation are very, very, very few in any given challenge, if there would be any at all.
Observation doesn't have to be keen or deep in order to evoke a reaction, and really, that's all challenges are for, reactions. |
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07/09/2009 06:52:01 PM · #23 |
| I have not seen this before but I pick neither left nor right but it's gonna hurt.... |
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07/09/2009 07:01:00 PM · #24 |
It's not a photograph.
Is that a bus? looks like a robot to me!
do we have to choose left or right? |
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07/09/2009 07:27:06 PM · #25 |
| The problem isn't trying to determine what direction the bus is going, thats impossible. But simply realizing, there is no bus.... |
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