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> A surprising majority of people says "milk", when the correct answer is "water". This is obviously because of some sort of bias against water. Any other expla
by jordonwii 10y ago
> A surprising majority of people says "milk", when the correct answer is "water". This is obviously because of some sort of bias against water. Any other explanation is absolutely inconceivable.
It may have something to do with priming, as well, but the difficulty of the riddle clearly also involves gender associations.
Someone I asked this riddle to got stumped. As an experiment, I changed the word "surgeon" to "nurse". They immediately answered that version correctly.
- 08-15 10y ago> changed the word "surgeon" to "nurse" But that's not surprising at all, is it? The verb "to nurse" means "to breastfeed", and it's damn near impossible to associate a man with that word. It may be a bad word to describe a profession, but this particular association is really explained by the other meanings of the word. My native tongue is German. We call a nurse "Krankenschwester", literally sick-people-sister. The male equivalent "Krankenbruder" doesn't exist. This badly chosen name makes it even harder to think of a nurse as male.