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Comment author: prase 23 September 2011 05:31:00PM 2 points [-]

The answer was: Any three numbers in ascending order. No students in the group got the right answer.

I am surprised. I run the test once in a circle of my friends in a pub and five out of six got the right answer. (I am pretty sure nobody except me knew that it is a standard psychological experiment.)