Quick thinking exercise

I thought of a red hammer. Nonetheless, I am suprised at the 98% statistic, and the replies so far don't justify it (although maybe most of us sheep are embaaarassed to own up)

It seems reasonable that "red" is the most commonly chosen colour (have a look at this http://www.righto.com/papers/laundry.ps - it still makes me laugh 10 years after I first saw it), and "hammer" the most commonly chosen tool, but even if they were each chosen 80% of the time, then, if the choices were independent, "red hammer" would only come up about 64% of the time.

I assume the arithmetic is intended to put one into a mind set of "give quick answer to easy question" rather than "think about what lies behind question and give a smart answer".

Blue wrench.

Lol, Green Spanner for me, have we had any of those yet or am I the first !?

cerise adze .... no, not really, red hammer...baaa

grey spanner

I was wondering why a red hammer,I mean I can understand picking a hammer,as a common tool, but is red a highly common picked colour?

I picked a blue screwdriver. 🙂

~ Cheshire Cat 😀

Hammer was the first thing that came to mind. But red is my favourite colour, so ... muahaa haaa!

Originally posted by lucifershammer
Hammer was the first thing that came to mind. But red is my favourite colour, so ... muahaa haaa!

Yellow wench...

yellow screwdriver....

hmm - wierd! should i feel good that im in the other 2% of the population? or is that a bad thing?!

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lol

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I got a Black Pickaxe..

Orange hammer.

I thought of Peter O'Tool and black.
Guess I'm odd.
(or I've been emailed this thousands of times and decided to be different)

A blue screwdriver (I use to be an electrician and all my screwdrivers have blue handles).

I got red screwdriver, it may be because my dad has red screwdrivers. what do you think? I'm obsessed with chess and relativity anyway!!!