Test: can you be programmed?

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> > > > > >Well, do this little mind exercise and find out at the end!

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> > > > > >Free will or synaptic wiring?

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> > > > > >You be the judge. Check out the following exercise, guaranteed to

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> > > > > >Again, as quickly as you can but don't advance until you've done each

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> > > > > >Now, scroll down...using the down arrow, not the bar.

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> > > > > >You're thinking of a carrot, right?

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> > > > > >If not, you're among the 2% of the population whose minds are

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> > > > > >enough to think something else. 98% of people will answer with carrot

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> > > > > >Freaky, huh? Keep this message going. Forward it to people you know

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> > > > > >This is very freaky, you might have almost thought of something else

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> > > > > >something tells you to choose carrot .

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> > > > > >NOW GET BACK TO WORK.....

 

 

Here's the original thread

 

http://www.sciforums.com/showthread...&threadid=16877

here is the thread that i got it from that has the link to the original thread. I'm sorry if this is the wrong thread it just look as if there was a bit of topics on the brain so i posted it here. Btw i thought of cucumber. I'm just wondering if anyone knows if this is a real test or a time waster. Thanks!

i thought of squash first...tasty squash...mmmm.....

 

but right after squash i thought of carrots...weird

 

 

cool thread man!

I came up with "marrow", but I think that's actually a fruit. Well, it has seeds. Fruit or veg? Dunno.

 

What's the significance of the carrot then? Is it "extra sixy"?

some people tried to explain it by saying the the > reminded them of a carrot for some reason. One person kept talking about the "shadow mind" i think that he's talking about the sub conciounse (sorry about spelling) and that the 2% of people who didnt say carrot is that they dont think about them much. I said cucumber and i dont think about that much either so i dont think that he is right. Anyway i dont have a clue why this works and im wondering if any one does.

Is a turnip a vegetable? That's what I thought of! (I did one before with colors, so I knew to choose weird. With the colors, I chose char-treuce to screw the statistics)

I'm from the 2%!

As soon as I saw what the thread was all about, I was expecting it to ask something along those lines. When asked to think of a vegetable, I had a complete mental blank and struggled to think of a single one. Carrot was indeed the first thing that entered my head.

Always think of the weirdest you can when you see a mind trick like that!

kinda defeats the pupose of the trick, if you "try" to beat it. After all you really arn't competing with anyone...you are just seeing something cool about your mind :/

I, of course, didn't see anything cool. I defeated the purpose!

I said strawberry, but it's not a vegetable nor is it carrot. Yes!

whats weird is that it works. Alot of people say carrots hmmm...oh and most of the 2% say cucumber this really is weird.

I thought of cucumber?

Maybe it has to do with the kk sound?

And Carrot is the most commonly eaten kk sounding vegatable?

I thought tomato, then while I scrolled I contemplated the merits of why its classified as a vegetable instead of a fruit since it has seeds.

it is not classified as a vegitable. It is calssified as a fruit -- at least biologically speaking. Of course when you walk into a grocery store you find it in the vegitable section most of the time. But hey, its just a store.

 

Then again, if you want to get really picky, then there is no such thing as a vegitable. THere are fruits, tubers, legumes, rizomes, roots, ect. But NO vegitables.

 

The take home message? The next time your mother tells you to eat your vegitables, tell her no! If she gets mad, then say, "you are the one asking for impossible things."

 

That oughta go over well.

Cap'n Refsmmat said in post # :

Always think of the weirdest you can when you see a mind trick like that!

that not only defeats the purpose, it screws up your answer. you could have thought of carrot first then chose something else (many people would do that). or you could have thought of a carrot subconsciously, but blocked it out, thinking that you thought something else.

 

btw, i thought carrot first. i think it is the >'s, just the repeated thought of a triangle, and something long. some people might put more emphasis on long (cucumber) and some people might but more emphasis on the triangle (turnip or something). and some people might have thought of something else, but most of those people probably didn't realize that their subconscious thought of a carrot first...

So basically, whereas 98% of people usually say "carrot", most of us picked fruits.

 

\o/ Welcome to the cray-zee house.

well, after I managed to convince Satan to leave me alone after chanting 666 for a while. I thought of Potatoe.

the actual trick your trying to do should be based around the number 24 not 6

the association then runs along 24, as in "carrat" gold.

nice try though

So why does it work with 6? or was I the only one that thought of a carrot in this example?

i thought of broccoli. i'm wierd, i know.

greg1917 said in post # :

So why does it work with 6? or was I the only one that thought of a carrot in this example?

 

Because shift + 6 is the symbol called "carrot".

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do you feel hungry?

 

 

 

No, I just eight

I thought of onion.

 

666? Maybe carrot is the vegetable of the beast?

it is, read post #163 onwards in thread: http://www.scienceforums.net/forums/showthread.php?threadid=1593&perpage=50&pagenumber=4

 

you`ll see it`s all about food for the beast, it motivates them!

does any1 know where to get other tests like these? They look pretty interesting.