[lit-ideas] Re: What is the Opposite of Right?
- From: Judith Evans <judithevans001@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2011 21:04:31 +0100 (BST)
The Gold Standard IQ test here (apparently based on a US one) asks
"Why should you pay taxes?"
As I wasn't really being tested I took the liberty of noting libertarians might
object, then, answered.
Wrong.
So, I tried again.
Wrong.
After much prompting, I did find the er right answer, the only right answer.
Any guesses?
Judy Evans, Cardiff
--- On Thu, 28/7/11, David Ritchie <ritchierd@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> From: David Ritchie <ritchierd@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: What is the Opposite of Right?
> To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Date: Thursday, 28 July, 2011, 20:42
> One daughter is fortunate enough to
> be spending next year at Oxford. Those organizing the
> trip--not her home university--set up a facebook page and
> invited everyone going abroad to join. To avoid spam,
> they included, as a question that all humans can answer but
> a spamming computer cannot, "What is the opposite of
> right"?
>
> If you type in the word "wrong," Facebook comes back with a
> response, "Please answer correctly."
>
> Why bother to note this? Well I'm thinking that the
> person who set up the page believed the question to be
> unambiguous, has not noticed that the OED devotes nine full
> pages to "right," cannot imagine that language questions
> trip people up. Possibly this person has never had the
> opportunity to travel?
>
> What's the word that sounds like it's got metal in?
>
> David Ritchie,
> Portland, Oregon
>
>
>
>
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