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Reminds me of this one ..A teacher asked her 6th grade class how many of them were Rudd fans.
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With a big smile, Johnny replied, 'That would make me a Rudd fan.'
...Next Prime Minister of Australia that little Johnny !!! LMFAOOOOOO
You just thought about a red hammer, didn't you?
If this is not your answer, you are among 2% of
people who have a different, if not abnormal, mind.
98% of the folks would answer a red hammer while doing this exercise.
If you do not believe this, pass it around and you'll see.
Be sure to put in the subject line if you are among the 98% or the 2% and send to everyone, including the person that sent it to you .
I thought: 'green trowel'LMFAO .... I immediately thought red SHOVEL. 2% te he.
Answer
It seems pretty unanimous that the reason this "works" is because Red is usually the color people think of first, and Hammer is the first too. It also seems pretty unanimous that nowhere near 98% of people answer "red hammer".
This page has a discussion from a linguist.
http://thelanguageguy.blogspot.com/2005/04/fun-linguistic-internet-scam.html
This blog post was also interesting.
http://www.dx13.co.uk/articles/2006/4/1/433---The-98--2--Email.html
My personal theory is that additionally once Red is in the mind, some people will then jump to Hammer easily because of the Russian Hammer and Sickle (and who thinks of a Sickle?)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hammer_and_sickle
The best page of responses was this one:
http://theintentionexperiment.ning.com/forum/topic/show?id=848178:Topic:8244...
The 13 pages of posts at the bottom (people putting what THEY thought of first) make it pretty clear that nowhere near 98% answer "red hammer"
More pages with people posting results:
http://www.talkleft.com/story/2005/07/09/860/60794
http://www.neowin.net/forum/index.php?showtopic=384141
http://www.wordofmouthexperiment.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=349
http://www.hauntedhamilton.com/messageboard/messages/18/3083.html?1109457119
So... All of that isn't especially satisfying, but the truth of the matter is, that it doesn't work for everyone, not even for 98%, but boy is it impressive when it does work, which is often enough to get it forwarded for nearly 10 years (one of the pages I saw had a sighting of this as far back as 1999). Because only those for whom it works (typically) forward it, you get a long chain of "It worked for me" comments at the bottom of said e-mail, lending credence to the claim.
Thanks for writing!
Cassandra
You just thought about a red hammer, didn't you?
If this is not your answer, you are among 2% of
people who have a different, if not abnormal, mind.
98% of the folks would answer a red hammer while doing this exercise.
If you do not believe this, pass it around and you'll see.
Be sure to put in the subject line if you are among the 98% or the 2% and send to everyone, including the person that sent it to you .
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