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[wispfox]

The trees are insufficiently green. Naked trees make it difficult to believe in Springtime!

Must remember to bring bags with me on walks, so instead of being annoyed by trash on the ground, I can pick it up and thow it away later.

Odyssey of the Mind - _that's_ what I was part of in junior high! Neat stuff.

Because now I'm curious, I offer you the example my mom gave me of a fluid reasoning-based qeustion. (it does require not already having run into it before, mind)

[Poll #1168310]

Ok, back to work.

[edit: There is no 'right answer'. Indeed, I suspect that this is part of a hallmark of a test of fluid reasoning, that there is not one]

Comments

[metahacker.livejournal.com]

S'ok, I wasn't asking it as a question. More pointing to a similar (congruent?) situation, and letting Alice express my frustration.

[wispfox.livejournal.com]

Hmm.

And I'm struggling really, really hard to manage to make those similar.

(I am, incidentally, fascinated by my difficulty gut-level-comprehending the frustration, although sorry that I frustrated you)

I think I may have to agree to try to remain aware of this (unfortunately, some of the lack of understanding will make extrapolating to additional likely similar things difficult) as possibly frustrating, and leave it at that. I get the words being used. I get the results. My other-are-not-me imagination is failing spectacularly to allow me to understand the 'why' enough to remember and use it again later.

[metahacker.livejournal.com]

You (unintentionally) asked a riddle with no answer, one which has caused me similar frustration.

Heh! This was itself a riddle! See, how you struggle with it. :) "How is "how is a raven like a writing desk" like "how is a tree like a fly"?"