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Originally Posted by jd1020
I've heard that one before and after I was given the answer I just left thinking that it was reeruned. There's no logical reason to ever come to the answer.
When I heard it the didnt ask how much a pear cost and instead just asked, "How much is a pear?" The only thing I could think of was 2 as if it was a play on words. Then I find out fruit is sold by the vowel... stupid.
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It is a fairly narrow form of intelligence assessment, but it does have a validity.
When problem-solving in an artificial setting, such as a hypothetical question, one needs to structurally recognize a couple of assumptions; that there is a right answer, and that you are provided enough information to find that right answer. With that basis, the task becomes finding the pattern where a pattern isn't apparent.
You are given the information that question wants you to know, and you are given the conclusion the question wants you to divine. Once you place yourself in that, admittedly artificial, cognitive space, the answer has a singular rationality.