Are you normal?
Have you ever wondered if your mind is normal or different?? Well, do this little mind exercise and find out at the end!! Free will or synaptic wiring? You be the judge. Check out the following exercise, guaranteed to raise an eyebrow. There's no trick or surprise. Just follow these instructions, and answer the questions one at a time and as quickly as you can. Again, as quickly as you can but don't advance until you've done each of them...really. Now, scroll down (but not too fast, you might miss something)........
What is:
1+5
2+4
3+3
4+2
5+1
Now repeat saying the number 6 to yourself as fast as you can for 15 seconds.
Then scroll down.
QUICK!!! THINK OF A VEGETABLE!
Then arrow down.
Keep going.
You're thinking of carrot, right?
If not, you're among the 2% of the population whose minds are different enough to think of something else.
98% of people will answer with carrot when given this exercise.
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I'm normal - how disappointing.....
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very reassuring
unfortunately i'll never know whether i'm normal or not, because when this email went round our office i overheard someone talking about the carrot before i saw the test...
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I thought of parsnip. Same shape as a carrot though
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Um....marrow ?
My mind went blank, and that popped in there. Carrot wasn't even in the running.
Now I'm scared.
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Potato
I believe the claim of 98% to be a little ... optimistic.
This message was edited by:MickyBoinng on 2006-01-03 12:32
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potato here too
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print("it beats pappo");
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my first thought was 'orange' but we all know that's not a vegetable. carrot was second, tho.....
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hmm... maybe this trick isn't quite so amazing as all that... it had a pretty high success rate at work tho. So maybe most of the visitors here are just strange
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__________________________you're only just figuring this out??
i don't care no i wouldn't dare to fix the twist in you (Sick Puppies : All The Same)
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Could it not just be that ... when asked to think of a vegetable, a lot of people will think carrot anyway, and all the 6's actually have nothing to do with the outcome?
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well it could be... or it might be that carrots are universally (tho subconsciously) known as the sixth vegetable, in some kind of vast masterplan of existence. Who knows?
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The 7 Deadly Vegetables?
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Cabbage, onion, pumpkin, radish, marrow, carrot and globe artichoke, obviously.
Post 666. Woo.
This message was edited by:MickyBoinng on 2006-01-07 07:12
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Carrot. Sod it.