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I hate that one. It seems to rely on these "pirates" being hardcore mathematical logicians and rule-followers. Can you imagine a pirate, one out of five, "sugge

• Quarrelsome 17y ago
  Yea, I posted on the answer page for this. Giving your "2nd in command" (pirate 4) zero gold is foolish if your prime objective is to not die. Humans, especially Pirates don't care about maths in these kind of scenarios, zero gold would be considered an insult.
• tedunangst 17y ago
  Not that I ask it, but it's a question about induction, not psychology. They are "pirates", not pirates. Imagine if the interviewer instead asked "Convince me you know induction." as that's what they are really after. Without a framework to hang the answer on, it becomes a lot harder. It's a bad question because it has fallen into the "riddles with memorized answers" category, but not because the skills necessary to solve it are useless.
  • sailormoon 17y ago
    They are "pirates", not pirates. I dig where you're coming from but this is kind of my whole point. Humans are humans, you cannot just ignore psychology. You are being asked to predict human behaviour. The "correct" answer is ridiculously unrealistic. Who is better - the guy who is competent at induction, or the guy who realises that human interaction is rarely, if ever, guided by such black and white rules?