Topic awaiting preservation: A weird test

This is fun. Please post your result so that we can reevaluate the statistic : ) It looks long but really its just scrolling.



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> I know! Calculations are hard work, but it's nearly over..
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> QUICK! THINK ABOUT A TOOL AND A COLOR!
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> You just thought about a red hammer, didn't you?
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> If this is not your answer, you are among 2% of people who have a
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> 98% of the folks would answer a red hammer while doing this exercise.



I thought of a black hammer when doing it.

Uh oh....I seem to be abnormal - I chose orange and an AJ
I've conformed to these tests in the past, but then Im a tecchie who's looking at a predominantly orange site

Yeah, AJ definitely can't have been a good result....

Wrayal

Go to kimber-ja.demon.co.uk and click on the link to the raytracer!

I thought to a blue pencil, but I'm in the Asylum so that's not a big surprise. And yes, to me a pencil is a tool.

heh well the only reason I posted it is cuz on the other forum (where I got it from) noone said 'red hammer' yet the test claims that 98% choose that... kinda funny


oh and... WTF IS AN AJ????



(Edited by asptamer on 11-09-2004 22:20)

I chose an orange chisel. Guess I'm odd.

"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." -- Arthur C. Clarke
"Any sufficiently arcane magic is indistinguishable from technology." -- P. David Lebling

Green pipe wrench... But then, I already knew I was odd

hehe, tecchie talk for an adjustable spanner

what else..."podger" for ratchet spanner....

Wrayal

Go to kimber-ja.demon.co.uk and click on the link to the raytracer!

I chose a red hammer.

Unfortunately that doesn't make me too happy to be "normal".

-Chesta

Orange wrench ...

blue screwdriver...

Of course, the questions before hand have nothing to do with it. "red" and "hammer" are just very prominent answers for such questions - very bold and symbolic.

98% seems a little high, but I have no problem beleiving that the vast majority do respond that way.

(Edited by DL-44 on 11-09-2004 23:24)

grey chainsaw

Red Hammer! Whoo Hoo! Finally something I can point to and say "See! I am too normal!"

But then again, why be normal when you can be well-adjusted instead?

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le coeur du feu
Qui sème le vent récolte la tempête!

Red saw.

I chose a red hammer and I'm a bit freaked out about it...
Of course a few sedatives and I'm sure I'll be fine

(shuffles back to my cell to hit the stash)

Interesting, it probably works by making you think logically so much that when you're asked a creative question, you come up with the most generic answer possible.

Personally, I chose a yellow hammer, but that's because I'm working on a predominantly yellow POV-Ray image right now. =)


 

Brown hammer.

"Nothin' like a pro-stabbin' from a pro." -Weadah

I thought orange hammer.

But then again look around...



.:[ Never resist a perfect moment ]:.

Yellow screwdriver.

Of course, considering what I've been drinking all night, my choice of tool doesn't surprise me.

:::11oh1:::

Blue "glitch" - yeah, I've been infected by the ReBoot infection...

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var Liorean = {
prototype: CSSGuru.prototype,
abode: "http://web-graphics.com/",
profile: "http://codingforums.com/member.php?u=5798"};

silver ruler....

Actually, I think it works on prototypes.

Ask someone to think of a bird. Chances are, they'll think of a robin. The robin is the prototypical bird for most people, since it incorporates most general features of birds.

So, what is the prototypical tool? Chisel came to mind for me, though I would expect hammer and screwdriver to be the most common tools people think of (and glitch to be one of the least, liorean. Very few tools I know of morph!)

And what about colors? Notice most people either said a color close to red (orange, yellow), or blue. Those are what I would expect to be the most common colors to jump into one's head.

The questions are SUPPOSED to get your mind off of the tool and color, so you think of a "random" one... but I think in this case, it worked against it.

"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." -- Arthur C. Clarke
"Any sufficiently arcane magic is indistinguishable from technology." -- P. David Lebling

(Edited by Iron Wallaby on 11-10-2004 02:55)

I thought of PhotoShop and Yellow...


Well, isn't PhotoShop a tool???

-- not necessarily stoned... just beautiful.

I thought of a purple chainsaw... but that's just me


Justice 4 Pat Richard

Blue Photoshop here. But I just got up, and haven't finished my first cup of coffee yet...hehe.

WebShaman | Asylum D & D | D & D Min Page

I thought of a pink duster... is that bad?

eeh, blue wrench.

blue hammer ... only because i was just talking to somebody about a hammer and my favourite colour... ahhh i need a smoke.

[insert fabulous sig here]

hmm, red crowbar...

Too much Half Life there matey!

I thought of red hammer too.

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orange hammer.

Blue spanner.
The second time I did it I get a beige snooker cue.
Third I got a yellow wrench.
Only the 56th FIFTY-SIXTH time did I get a red hammer.
Spooky...

For color, I chose yellow. For tool, I chose Jestah.


(Edit: Hey, did anyone else see that? ^^ Yannah's back!)



(Edited by Wes on 11-11-2004 23:54)

Green Power Drill ?!

Maybe we have the 2% here?

Too bad all the people who know how to run the world are busy running taxicabs or cutting hair. - George Burns
ICQ: 67751342

brown hammer just like synax

Yeah, I'm not seeing a lot of red hammer answers up there.

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Yeah...I'm back.
I did think of red hammer but I can't say that I'm normal. Being normal or average is just too freaky for me.

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orange screwdriver...
i think the oranges have it!

Purple Wrench...gotta love purple.

"You know you have been doing 3d too long when you walk into a church and think, "God, the polycount of this place must be huge!"

Have you ever actually seen a purple wrench?

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Lacuna:

I believe my love of orange over the last 6 years has been a direct result of the good Doctor Ozone. There was a thread a while back that even suggested that his use of orange had broad influence on the internet itself. What do you think about that?

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I've seen the exact same thing before, the questions above greatly vary, but I've never once thought of the red hammer. And too many sums, waste of time, I was hoping that you'd get a mental block or something trying to figure out something in the end. Not sure what I thought of this time, actually I dont think I bothered cause I seen it before, but green/black something usually.

Edit: ^^ Bugimus: I'd agree but I recon the half life type/related sites is what has increased the web's orangeness mostly(Orange on Grey is very widespread, its the new green on black ). But in this test, orange would of course come to mind your looking at it, other than the blue background, its all shades of orange.

(Edited by Hugh on 11-12-2004 18:01)

It would be interesting to see tools of these colors.

I got red hammer,but I've taken this test before as well, so I was already subconsciously aware of the answer. Not to mention after I thought "red hammer", I thought "yeah.. that's the 'correct' answer."

Double Cross
The political blog for righties and lefties.

...I've never seen a red hammer, either...

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orange screwdriver...
i think the oranges have it!

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yea, that happens to be the predominant color of this thread... so that makes sense. Maybe the original test was written on predominantly red background ?!

I have seen a purple wrench...in my head.

"You know you have been doing 3d too long when you walk into a church and think, "God, the polycount of this place must be huge!"

*posted here and changed my mind*

(Edited by AlterEgo on 11-13-2004 15:22)

blue screwdriver

Later,

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A Red Saw
perhaps I was scarred more than I thought, when I repeatedly cut myself in woodwork at school

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Luxo_Jr said:

I have seen a purple wrench...in my head.

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I figured as much

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