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The 3 questions quoted in another comment are not trick questions and they obviously did not come out of the blue for anyone taking the test. They are simple r
by mytailorisrich 4y ago
The 3 questions quoted in another comment are not trick questions and they obviously did not come out of the blue for anyone taking the test.
They are simple reasoning questions. IMHO, people tend to "fall for them" not because they are trick questions but because people don't really reason carefully.
The standard advice I have always received is to read the actual question carefully, the whole question and nothing but the question.
This might catch a random member of the public but you would think university students are at their peak of "reading test questions skills".
Here I think what the questions do is that they may cause our brain to very quickly come up with a shortcut and wrong answer, which should immediately be discarded if you were indeed carefully reading the question, i.e. paying attention (so maybe indeed something like a conflict between 'fast and slow thinking').