Alt-BEAM Archive
Message #02485
To: beam@corp.sgi.com
From: "Addy Yeow" addy_yeow@hotmail.com
Date: Mon, 19 Apr 1999 19:14:19 MYT
Subject: [alt-beam] test your brain while building your beambots
This has got to be one of the most interesting intelligence tests I
have ever seen. It's very short so try it - you may be amazed. A
quick test of intelligence. Don't cheat! Because if you did, the
test would be no fun. I promise, there are no tricks to the test.
Read this sentence:
FINISHED FILES ARE THE RE-
SULT OF YEARS OF SCIENTIFIC
STUDY COMBINED WITH THE
EXPERIENCE OF YEARS.
Now count OUT LOUD the F's in that sentence. Count them ONLY ONCE.
Do not go back and count them again.
See below...
ANSWER:
There are six F's in the sentence.
One of average intelligence finds three of them.
If you spotted four, you're above average.
If you got five, you can turn your nose at almost anybody.
If you caught six, you are a genius and I bow to your greater powers
of
observation.
There is no catch. Many people forget the "OF"'s. The human brain
tends
to see them as V's and not F's. Pretty weird though - it fools almost
everybody.
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