How does this work?

[reds4ever]

Maybe it works on sylables, they are both "quick" answers?

[VetLegion]

Originally posted by General Ludd
I'm curious why many people here seem to be picking blue, though.

[VetLegion]

Originally posted by General Ludd
I picked red hammer.

The math is meaningless.

Red is a power colour, tools a power object. Red is often associated with tools - red tool boxes, red handles, ect...

A hammer is the symbolic tool

When asked to think about a colour and a tool, it is your associations that will determine your gut response without any sort of context being given.

Orange and possibly yellow would probably be another popular choice due to the association they have with construction, and are also frequently used in the packagin and design of tools.

Screwdrivers and possibly axes or saws would probably be popular choices aswell, since they are probably the next most iconic tools besides the hammer.

Art school is paying off.

Your answer is on the right track I think. The math really doesn't serve a purpose. And if someone asks you to reply to something "quick" you give your first association, modified a bit for correctness (change dildo to hammer).

The color part is more interesting. Maybe red is a conservative color as colors go. It's a safe answer.

[reds4ever]

Jesus Christ!!

Of course the maths only purpose is to get you to give a quick response! What did you think? That the answers to the maths questions somehow lead to "red hammer"?





Try altering a few of the numbers, you'll still get the same answer. It's not a mathematical proof....

[Dinner]

That's a lot of desert. Nuclear war produced some global warming?

[VetLegion]

x50 @ reds4ever

Oerdin, that's an image I Googled to show why people see Blue Hammers. It's not my city and I have no idea what the arrow means either.

[Sarxis]

Picked Red Hammer also.

I'd say 'red' is easy to think and say quickly. So is hammer. As opposed to say, a bergundy screw-driver. Red Hammer: three syllables, and in the context of 'quick', makes sense.

[Drogue]

Actually, it is about the maths in a way. Apparently thinking hard, doing problems (such as mental arithmetic) uses certain parts of the brain. If you were to replace the arithmetic with a story, then ask people to pick, far fewer would pick a red hammer, as that part of the brain wouldn't have been primed. Sure, the numbers can change, but they have to be something similar to mental arithmetic for it to work as often as it does.

[Tattila the Hun]

I think I did this earlier, and remembered that red hammer is the norm answer...