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Originally Posted by Baby Lee
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.
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I just feel like that question is one of those childhood kid games where 1 kid came up with some arbitrary way to price fruit and started asking his friends how much a pear cost just to make himself feel smarter.
For instance I could say, an apple cost $0.10. A mango cost $1.30. A grape cost $0.70. How much does honeydew cost?