Gretzky Bros Vs The Hughes Bros

[WTG]

Frankly, it doesn't surprise me much, some people these days have a really hard time understanding the gravitational reality we live in, like all these ***** driving while looking at their phones

It's to be expected, most people can't do conditional hyptheticals.

Wason selection task - Wikipedia

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You are shown a set of four cards placed on a table, each of which has a number on one side and a color on the other. The visible faces of the cards show 3, 8, blue and red. Which card(s) must you turn over in order to test that if a card shows an even number on one face, then its opposite face is blue?

Spoiler: Answer

You turn over the 8 and red card.

"In Wason's study, not even 10% of subjects found the correct solution"

 

[North Cole]

It's to be expected, most people can't do conditional hyptheticals.

Wason selection task - Wikipedia

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Spoiler: Answer

You turn over the 8 and red card.

"In Wason's study, not even 10% of subjects found the correct solution"

I think part of what makes it hard is that we've been trained that most of these tests are slanted toward pattern recognition. So rather than treat the cards as discrete objects we assume they are all tied together. I would flip the 3 and 8 expecting to see red on the 3 and blue on the 8, thus odd cards are red and blue cards are even. But it very well could be odd, even, odd, odd and technically work just fine because the blue-odd doesn't matter when the question is trying to disprove that even face cards must be blue.

It seems to me the test is less about whether you can do a conditional hypothetical, and more about whether you can stop yourself from starting with a faulty assumption. Of course we do better when it's policing a social rule because we are not pre-programmed to boil it down into a pattern recognition test.

I wonder if younger test subjects would have more success.

I'm also not sure this supports the other posters argument because the conditional in this case is that you don't need to keep Wayne's brothers. If I can literally waive them, then I'm not really comparing Wayne and his brothers to the Hughes brothers. I'm comparing adding Wayne to a team and the difference between him and the player he replaces. To the difference between the guys the Hughes brothers replace. Which although are bottom pairing and fourth line players, are not actually as bad as Wayne's brothers.

 

[dirtydanglez]

quinn hughes just demanded a trade to the gretzky side.

 

[Legionnaire11]

The only way the Hughes' win this is in the completely unrealistic fantasy scenario where both teams are made of completely equal replacement level players.

Any other situation and Gretzky is the answer.


That and I assume the people saying "do you not know how good the Hughes are?" probably actually don't know how good Wayne was.