WHILST ON THE SUBJECT OF SOCKS AND SHOES

[Neville Briggs]

Tom.....I'm struggling to see how ability with words relates to picking two socks out of a drawer ?????

I think IQ tests only prove that IQ tests are a lot of non-aromatic bovine emission.

[Maureen K Clifford]

If they were allowed to look you would have to pretty dumb not to take out a matching pair the first time . Even the stupidest player would I suspect be able to pick out two white ones or two black one. Am I missing something here?????

My original estimate sent as a PM was using the premise that they were unable to look or were blind and doing parrot impersonations.

[Leonie]

Uummh, does it have to be a matching pair? Is one white and one black sock still a pair? I guess it would be if the footballer was colour blind.

[tom mcilveen]

sorry heather ..you are so right.remiss of me to leave that out ..NO YOU CAN'T LOOK...I WILL RUN THE QUESTION AGAIN FOR ALL THOSE JUST LOGGING ONTO IT..PLEASE POST ANSWERS PRIVATELY TO ME AND I WILL ANNOUNCE THE WINNERS .
QUESTION...IF THERE ARE 50 BLACK AND 50 WHITE SOCKS IN A DRAWER WITHOUT LOOKING WHAT IS THE MINIMUM NUMBER OF SOCKS YOU NEED TO TAKE OUT TO BE GUARANTEED OF GETTING A MATCHING PAIR ????
this is NOT A TRICK QUESTION ...JUST AN IQ TEST......IT'S AMAZING HOW MANY INTELLIGENT ACADEMICS GET THIS WRONG...this type of logic works the opposite side of the brain


Tom McIlveen

[tom mcilveen]

I WILL POST ANSWER AND WINNERS TOMORROW..TO ALLOW MORE PEOPLE A CHANCE TO HAVE A GO AT AN ANSWER...
PLEASE POST YOUR ANSWERS ON 'PRIVATE POST'........
WHAT'S THIS GOT TO DO WITH POETRY ..ABSOLUTELY NOTHING !!!! IT JUST THAT SOMEBODY MENTIONED SOCKS AND I WAS REMINDED OFF THIS QUESTION WHICH HAS BEEN A GREAT PARTY LINE OVER THE YEARS..IT'S A GREAT ONE TO TEST LOUD MOUTHED KNOW IT ALL'S AT A PARTY..BRINGS THEM DOWN TO EARTH REAL QUICKLY..I RECKON THIS QUESTION SHOULD A MUST AT ALL JOB INTERVIEWS !!!
TILL TOMORROW NIGHT.

Tom McIlveen

[Neville Briggs]

What if the socks are all mixed up randomly ?

What if the socks are tied together in pairs?

What if all the black socks are together at the front of the drawer and all the white socks are together at the back of the drawer, how do you know where to take the sample from ?

How do we take these variables into account ?

Common sense says to simply look and choose by sight.

That's why these questions prove nothing about intelligent problem solving. They are just mind games. Using them at job interviews would only show which people could play mind games, perhaps you wouldn't want a prospective employee to be adept at mind games .

[Glenny Palmer]

...der Neville. He already said, you can't look.

you wouldn't want a prospective employee to be adept at mind games . (Maybe ya would if you were the ASIO boss????)

Oh my poor brain cells.....let's have a cuppa & a lie down Neville.

[Maureen K Clifford]

Glenny was that an invitation you just made to Neville that a gentleman would find hard to refuse even though he knows he should and would you perchance be JUST discussing poetry or would you perhaps be playing sock games and then scrambling to find a matching pair??? OOOH LA LA

[Glenny Palmer]

Aw strewth! I've done it again. Maureen I have an inherent capacity to put things the wrong way. Blissfully thinking I've conveyed a most understandable message & then think 'what's wrong with them? when they look at me funny ....oh dear.
Hey Neville YOU have a lie down...in NSW, & I'LL have a lie down in... Qld. (phew. I hope that sorts it for Mrs Neville.)

Talking about looking at me funny. I was shopping for fruit with my oldest daughter, Tammy. She's 'the stable' one of the mob & isn't as 'spontaneous' as me. So we pay for the fruit & hop in the car & Tam says, 'You don't know what you just did, do you?' I say 'ay?' Tam proceeds to advise me that while I was picking which apples I'd have, from off one of those elevated slanting display things, that the lady next to me, doing the same thing, had her hand on a particular apple, & I lifted her hand off the apple & snitched it for myself. I wondered why she gave me that queer look. (I have absolutely NO recollection of doing any such thing, & this could just be sibling rivalry...but then, our Tam's pretty straight.) Oh dear.

Where's my socks.......

Glenny

[Neville Briggs]

We know what you mean Glenny.
The ole afternoon nap is one of the entitled luxuries of mature years.