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Not being the type of person to click on link-bait very often, I missed this when it was popularised last year...

I admit, I completely failed this Simple Logic Question That Most Harvard Students Get Wrong

In fact, I failed so badly that I had to read the explanation-paragraph 3 times before I figured out why I was wrong and accepted their reasoning. My brain definitely falls into the "intuitive" bracket.

I wonder if this has more to do with how the question is phrased (and what language it's in) rather than blaming it purely on a lack of reasoning.

I also wonder how many fights would break out in a bar if you asked this to your friends after too many pints? People (including me) can get quite belligerent when actual logic threatens their reasoned-intuition, which may explain why I'm always berating Nikos for his lack of both.

it took some thinking but i got it right first time
which explains why I am the programmer and you... well talk like some confucious in rainy weather

Confucius say man who is warned first that question may be deceptive, is man less likely to arrive at his conclusion by walking barefoot through cow pasture.

I always follow my heart. (Hoping like hell the rain will wash my often smelly feet clean.)

I also am a firm adherent of Gödel's incompleteness theorems which effectively turn your Principia Mathematica world into loo roll. There's room yet for lofty imaginations!

and no one is really, really wrong
i had to think, think rethink. ok it kinda had me...

How much was the beer ?