Holy Cow, post: 451465, member: 50 wrote: How many were going to St. Ives?
To get the standard answer (=1) we must ASSUME a) the narrator was traveling alone, which was not specified, and 2) the narrator did not meet the larger company of travelers at a crossroads whereupon they all turned toward St Ives.
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Holy Cow, post: 451465, member: 50 wrote: How many were going to St. Ives?
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Reminds me of a quiz where it seems like you are doing math. Its not writen down but you tell it to a person. It starts out Bob the farmer has 12 chickens and goes on and on with math and you think its going to end with how many chickens. The end question is what is the farmers name.
73.6% of all statistics are made up on the spot by 67% of people that produce false statistics 55% of the time they produce them.
Source:
http://www.businessinsider.com/736-of-all-statistics-are-made-up-2010-2?international=true&r=US&IR=T
Just read the headline... not the article... the rest of the percentages i made up on the spot.
David Livingstone, post: 451545, member: 431 wrote: Reminds me of a quiz where it seems like you are doing math. Its not writen down but you tell it to a person. It starts out Bob the farmer has 12 chickens and goes on and on with math and you think its going to end with how many chickens. The end question is what is the farmers name.
I heard one similar that started "You are driving a bus to Dallas. There are 5 people on board."
You start listing how many get off and how many get on. None of it matters.
And then you get to Dallas, what is the name of the Bus Driver?
When they say "I have no idea", you say "Let me start over, YOU are driving a bus to Dallas...."
