![]() ![]() If you had to list them you’d probably forget a few you know, easily reaching a dozen and then slowing down. There are dozens of vegetables, and depending on your love of fresh food you might recognise a good proportion. This seemingly banal fact reveals something about how our minds organise information. What is happening is that, for most people, most of the time, in all sorts of circumstances, carrot is simply the first vegetable that comes to mind. Probably they just warm your respondent up to answering questions rapidly. Now I don’t think the magic is in the maths questions. Nine times out of 10 people answer the last question with “Carrot”. You tell someone they have to answer some questions as quickly as possible, and then you rush at them the following: There’s a word game we used to play at my school, or a sort of trick, and it works like this. ![]()
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