AshwinV comments on Innate Mathematical Ability - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Luke_A_Somers 18 February 2015 06:20:42PM *  3 points [-]

I'm pretty sure it's 2 (same as Vaniver, gwillen, and Alicorn). Was that what popped out at you?

It didn't take me less than 10 seconds to come up with this (I'd be surprised if it was less than 20 or more than 40 to find it and check, but I didn't check the clock). I tried to figure out the pattern without priming by looking at the possible answers, so there wasn't even really a chance to have the right answer pop out in this fashion.

ETA: I have taken Raven's Matrices before, so I was ready.

Comment author: AshwinV 11 May 2015 04:57:58AM 0 points [-]

I got 6 as the answer, basing it on 1. presence of inner circle 2. outer box apparently following a pattern.

But there's a high chance i'm privileging my observations.

Comment author: nyralech 11 May 2015 05:30:29AM 0 points [-]

You could also do a row-wise XOR on every feature and get 2. Which for me seemed like a pretty obvious solution to me so I went with it.