Questioning Your Intuition - The Bipolar Question of the Week

Do you trust your intuition? Okay, try to solve this little problem:

A bat and ball costs $1.10 total. The bat costs one dollar more than the ball. How much does the ball cost?

Let your intuition guide you.

You probably said ten cents, which is wrong. Don’t worry, half of those queried at Harvard, MIT, and Princeton gave the same answer you did. Just to show you how smart these students are, at less selective...

Source: John McManamy's SharePosts - November 18, 2013 Category: Mental Illness Authors: John McManamy Source Type: blogs