Answer honestly and you will be amazed by my mental prowess as my powerful psychic powers probe the recesses of your mind to extract what you are thinking of. Sorry for all of the math but it is important to set the channels of your inner mind along a path I can interpret. Simply answer the questions below as quickly as possible then follow the instructions.
I also know about that thing you did last Tuesday.
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I actually thought potato.
I've seen this before, and it got me before. My experience has been that most people (included me) do think carrot. And I knew that I was supposed to think something, but before my brain even started to remember what I was supposed to think, potato popped into my head (boy that sounds weird written like that). I knew immediately that that was the 'wrong' answer, but I still couldn't remember the 'right' answer.
Anyway - I just wonder if anyone else had a similar experience...
Posted by: Clancy at January 13, 2004 03:18 PM (EGVPL)
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You rat - I was actually going to say "onion" and then changed to "carrot." Just goes to show you should always stick with your first answer..... I hate being predictable.
Posted by: Mike the Marine at January 13, 2004 03:55 PM (Zw7Hl)
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I thought zucchini. Do I need medication?
Posted by: ilyka at January 13, 2004 05:17 PM (Hs5qC)
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I don't know about medication but you might want to consider counseling.
Posted by: Jim at January 13, 2004 07:03 PM (fkewd)
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Doesn't look like broccoli to me!
Posted by: Kevin Baker at January 13, 2004 08:52 PM (X3MkM)
Posted by: Mookie at January 13, 2004 09:20 PM (2sKfR)
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I thought of zucchini too. Maybe it's my Texas accent.
Posted by: Ann at January 14, 2004 08:19 AM (Ylg5j)
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Hmmm...it seems that women are coming up with zucchini, the most phallic of the vegetables...guys are thinking of broccoli, which is essentially a
bush...odd...or perverted?
Broccoli is not a vegetable anyway. Its only purpose is to serve as a vehicle for cheese sauce.
Posted by: Jim at January 14, 2004 08:23 AM (IOwam)
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I thought banana.Guess I need therapy now,since I can't even tell the difference between fruits and vegetables.:-(
Posted by: LW at January 14, 2004 08:46 AM (fkewd)
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I always think of carrots. Always.
Posted by: LeeAnn at January 14, 2004 01:04 PM (HxCeX)
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Ig-mo. If you "think of onion" then change your answer to "carrot" then the first vegetable you think of is "onion."
No carrot for you!
Posted by: Brian Jones at January 14, 2004 01:24 PM (E4NcZ)
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I admit it; I thought of carrot. But I went with garlic, so I one up'd the test! mheh.
Why carrot? Maybe it's the same wiring that -- when you ask someone to name a color -- makes most people answer "red". Hmmm. It may have nothing to do with all the sixes at all.
Posted by: Tuning Spork at January 18, 2004 08:25 PM (gvAsX)
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Broccoli was my choice too. Interesting that some of us went completely in the other direction...wonder what THAT means.
Posted by: feste at January 22, 2004 07:47 PM (/SprX)
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It's a psychosis response scale with carrot being "normal" and broccolli being ... well ... what feste said.
;-)
Posted by: Jim at January 22, 2004 07:52 PM (IOwam)
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Didnt know a tomato was orange and skinny
Posted by: jason at February 04, 2004 01:33 AM (fAK5T)
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So I was intrigued by this little "mind trick' and did a little experiment in the class I teach. I made 1/3 of people say TWENTY twenty times (that's what I read works in addition to an equation adding up to 6), the other 1/3 said the word AVERAGE (just to see if a word causes the same response) and a control group I made say nothing before I asked them to name the first vegetable they think of. Here are the results. Of groups 2 and 3, 30% of people said CARROT. But that number jumped to 50% for Group 1. That difference is statistically significant, i.e. something about the word TWENTY (maybe I should have used other numbers to see if it is twenty or just some mathematical stuff) that causes people to say CARROT more. Odd thing is that there is really NO obvious connection between 20 and CARROT so why does it happen? (I had thought that all 3 groups would show the same incidence of the Carrot response). Anyway, point to note, only half of the people you ask will say CARROT after the number TWENTY. Not so high after all, eh?
Posted by: nerdcentral at June 18, 2004 01:13 PM (xg4ZX)
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Very neat!
I think I've figured the correlation between "carrot" and "twenty". Other good numbers to use to duplicate the effect are fourteen, eighteen and twenty-four.
14K, 18K, 20K, 24K
We hear "20 karat" all the time.
Posted by: Jim at June 18, 2004 01:36 PM (IOwam)
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OMG, Jim. That's pure genius. Congratulations! And thank you. Finally, it makes sense of some kind. :-)
Posted by: nerdcentral at June 19, 2004 02:17 PM (xg4ZX)
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