Pre-School Test

[architect]

[SIZE=7]A PRE-SCHOOL TEST FOR YOU[/SIZE]

Which way is the bus below traveling?

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To the left or to the right?

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Can't make up your mind? [/SIZE]


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Still don't know?

Pre-schoolers all over the United States
were shown this picture asked the same question,
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[SIZE=5]90% of the pre-schoolers gave the same answer.

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[red07]

To the left.

The bus door is usually located on the right side.

[red07]

Do I get a candy or an ice cream?

[architect]

Oh, more than that - you get promoted to nursery. Remember it is a pre-school test.

But congratulations on being able to answer that. I posed that question to quite a few post pre-schoolers, actually post-grad guys. None of them were able to answer it. So I was intrigued and decided to post it.

[niky]

I kept trying to make the bus go right... but it still went left, damnit!...

I thought this was a psych thing (like the dancing girl in the other thread... ) :hysterical:

Paano kung Japanese? Maybe the people you asked were confused, because there are a lot of JDM vans with the doors on the left...

[architect]

Naaah, all of the guys I asked who got post-grad degrees got them either locally or from the States. Either way, I would say too Americanized to even think JDMs.

There seems to be something about higher education that makes the brain automatically add more elements to a problem. The higher the education level, the more complicated the additional elements.

That's some food for thought, isn't it.

[Taurus]

It is not even moving!

[b1rken5tock]

to the right, the door is at the left side of the bus..

[red07]

Oh, more than that - you get promoted to nursery. Remember it is a pre-school test.

But congratulations on being able to answer that. I posed that question to quite a few post pre-schoolers, actually post-grad guys. None of them were able to answer it. So I was intrigued and decided to post it.

Yahoooo!!!!!

It took me quite a while to answer your question.

I just looked out the window from our office and observed the buses in EDSA, badabing, badaboom!!!!!

[architect]

Hehe. Somehow, for me, the bus appears going to the left but that is because I am left-handed. Then, as I mentioned above, I started adding details to the bus (and making the problem complicated).

But in this case, when I got to drawing the door, that is when I realized the bus can be headed only in one direction. Since the door is located on the bus' right side, and there is no door shown in the drawing, then that means it is the left side that is shown. Hence the bus is headed left.

[architect]

to the right, the door is at the left side of the bus..

hmmm, maybe you are referring to one of those JDM buses niky mentioned?

[badsekktor]

it doesnt look like a bus to me

[b1rken5tock]

hmmm, maybe you are referring to one of those JDM buses niky mentioned?

london bus....

[architect]

Oh yeah that's true. They drive on the wrong side of the road, too.

[niky]

Naaah, all of the guys I asked who got post-grad degrees got them either locally or from the States. Either way, I would say too Americanized to even think JDMs.

There seems to be something about higher education that makes the brain automatically add more elements to a problem. The higher the education level, the more complicated the additional elements.

That's some food for thought, isn't it.

Actually, I took one look and thought... "Left".

Then I took about another fifteen minutes trying to figure out why I thought "left" and why I couldn't see the bus going the other way.

Kids don't have that problem. They just say "left" and leave it at that.

[architect]

Actually, the kids were asked to explain why. Here's the rest of the article -

[SIZE=5]90% of the pre-schooler's gave this answer: [/SIZE]

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[SIZE=5]"The bus is traveling to the left."

When asked, "Why do you think the bus is traveling to the left?"

They answered:

"Because you can't see the door to get on the bus."
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Honestly, I don't know what to make of the article. I can't remember being that analytical at that age. For God's sake, I don't even remember a single thing I did at the age. But then, I never attended pre-school.
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[cyrusblutrooper]

i asked my 5 yr old son, he answered left. i asked why, dahil daw may pulis sa right. ehehhehehehe

[gonzo]

I ask my 7YO son right daw ask ko bakit right?.... basta right daw!.. heheheh.. hes in the 10% group