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5/16/2012 1:56:35 AM
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If a baseball and bat cost $110...
..and the bat is $100 more than the ball, how much does the ball cost?
According to research, if you answered $10, then you're more inclined to be a person of faith.
[quote]Your answer to the following riddle can predict whether you are a believer in religion or a disbeliever:
Q: If a baseball and bat cost $110, and the bat costs $100 more than the ball, how much does the ball cost?
A: If you answered $10 you are inclined to believe in religion. If you answered $5 you are inclined to disbelieve.
Why? Because, according to new research reported in tomorrow's issue of the journal Science, the $10 answer indicates that you are an intuitive thinker, and the $5 answer indicates that you solve problems analytically, rather than following your gut instinct.[/quote][[url=http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-new-brain/201204/religion-and-reason]link[/url]]
Thoughts?
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[quote][b]Posted by:[/b] Marinade [quote][b]Posted by:[/b] destroys u [quote][b]Posted by:[/b] Marinade [quote][b]Posted by:[/b] Wikked Navajoe Wait...$10+(100+10)=$120? [quote]ITT: Math wars. Even though 10 + 100 = 110 + 10 = 120 and 5 + 100 = 105 + 5 = 110[/quote]This study is implying that people like me are stupid for our opinions, and I am having nothing to do with this thread when it is locked. *Leaves*[/quote] Even though you left I can't just leave this question I have hanging. How do you have an opinion about a math problem? Math doesn't really work off opinions.[/quote] He meant their religious views. (read the OP)[/quote] I did read the OP. The study is not saying anything bad about people having opinions. It's attempting to understand how people reach those opinions. Either through analytical thinking, more likely to say $5 for the ball, or through intuitive thinking, more likely to say $10. Basically to you go with your intuition, or do you analyse the problem before attempting to answer. They then did further study and found that people who are analytical thinkers are less likely to be religious. So therefore if the $5 answer shows you to be an analytical thinker, it could then be reasoned that answer would also indicate you are less likely to believe in religion. I guess I don't see how this is 'implying people are stupid for their opinions.'[/quote] It could be interpreted in a way that implies that religious people are unthinking.
