Cognitive Reflection Test (alternate form)
Please answer the following questions.
- If you’re running a race and you pass the person in second place, what place are you in?
- A farmer had 15 sheep and all but 8 died. How many are left?
- Emily’s father has three daughters. The first two are named April and May. What is the third daughter’s name?
- How many cubic feet of dirt are there in a hole that is 3’ deep x 3’ wide x 3’ long?
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Answers
- second place
- 8 sheep
- Emily
- zero cubic feet of dirt
Intuitive But Wrong Answers
- first place
- 7 sheep
- June
- 27 cubic feet
Source: Thomson & Oppenheimer: Investigating an alternate form of the cognitive reflection test