Are you among the 98%, or are you among the 2%? Take the test...

[kmla]

I'm a 98%er. I relish my trait as an independent thinker, but this one freaked me out. Please follow the directions, and post below. Let us know if you are "Abby Normal"...



This test determines human thought patterns. Humans fall into 1 of
2 percentiles: 98% or 2%. 98% think alike, and the remaining 2%
stray from the norm.

Here's the test:

Just follow the instructions as quickly as possible. Do not go to
the next calculation before you have finished the previous one. You
do not need to write or remember the answers, just do it using your
mind. You'll be surprised by the results...

Ready,





Go....





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QUICK! THINK ABOUT A TOOL AND A COLOR!






































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You have just thought about a red hammer, haven't you????

If this is not the case, you are among 2% of people who have
a "different" if not "abnormal" mind. 98% of those tested would
answer a "red hammer" while doing this exercise

[La Lioness Priyanka]

1. how? why?

and yes i did

[GoddessOfGuinness]

76. My guess

is that hammers were the first tools we used as kids (and most likely as cave-people); and that red, being the color of our blood, is the most primal of the primary colors.

But what the hell do I know? :shrug:

[blondeatlast]

95. Me too, but we are apparently in the minority here?! Hmmmmmmm...

[7th_Sephiroth]

120. i said

Green Hacksaw, whats that mean?

[XNASA]

2. I'm not normal, I guess.

I said Blue Hammer.

[pocoloco]

Hope you are not to far out in left field..

thaat was my pick also!

[Solon]

83. ME too!

2 percenters think alike. :)

[SPQR]

88. Another blue hammer here

[Dark]

114. Me too!

[Pithlet]

115. That's what I said.

Weird.

[Lauren2882]

124. Me too.

Are we "half-normal"??? :shrug:

[ProdigalJunkMail]

136. we of the BlueHammerCult are half normal

or so this would seem to indicate

[ellie]

147. Eerie

I said blue hammer also!

[fryguy]

3. blue screwdriver

guess I'm running with the 2%....

[Lindacooks]

56. That was my response too!

[BlueStateGirl]

66. That was my answer!

[fryguy]

74. some kind of cosmic link

first clark, now blue screwdrivers? what's next....

[Guaranteed]

78. I had yellow screwdriver nt

[IronLionZion]

98. silver Leatherman

but I have one on my desk so the results are skewed...unless I'm just abnormal like most here!

[MichaelUK]

137. Yellow Screwdriver

[Randomthought]

4. Where am I?

I thought about a red wrench.

[VelmaD]

5. Wow...I'm a 2%er...

my hammer wasn't red. :) It was blue...teal to be exact.

[bif]

6. Purple screwdriver

So I'm in the 2% club.

[tishaLA]

7. Green wrench here

oh well.

[Jackpine Radical]

50. Also a wrench and green.

But then I've always known I'm nuts.

'Way back I figured out that you can either go to a psychologist and have your problems fixed

or become a psychologist and have them excused.

I'm a psychologist.

[radwriter0555]

64. I got a red wrench..

what does it MEAN??????????

[rucky]

69. If you find out, let me know

red wrench: i happened to be using one just a few hours ago, tho.

[dolo amber]

8. Yellow drill

I didn't really need a test to tell me I ain't right, though. :silly:

;)

[Whitacre D_WI]

How'd I know you'd think of a drill?

:P

[dolo amber]

41. Well, to be honest

I think I thought of a saw...like the 'lectric kind. But I'm just a girl, what do I know from tools? :P

[Whitacre D_WI]

Huh-huh.

You said "tools."

[slksln]

106. I was close

I had an orange chain-saw

[Whitacre D_WI]

9. Orange wrench.

[southpaw]

61. Orange socket wrench

to be more specific

[BBradley]

100. Me too! lol

[trotsky]

10. yellow crescent wrench

Yikes, not sure what that says about me.

[Mr. McD]

11. No, a blue drill.

[fryguy]

12. either DU is populated with 2%ers

Or the "test" is wack

[parasim]

26. Perhaps someone should do a poll to see if it pans out

... like these guys did:

http://www.simplemachines.org/community/index.php?topic=6126.60

[blondeatlast]

97. I realize the poll isn't scientific, but I'm guessing the test

isn't right, either, or it is SUPPOSED to work on the power of suggestion.

I think the poll is truer than the "2%."

[parasim]

117. Yeah, I think the test is not being honest.

The fact that so many DUers were supposedly in the "2%" group I became curious and googled "the 98% and the 2%" thinking those words might reveal more information about the test itself. (I also noted that there was no source to the claim that 98% of the people taking this test would think of a red hammer.)

Well, I couldn't find the source of the test but it was interesting that at 4 different site that I visited, all message boards like DU, they all had a lot of people in the "2%" bracket.

The real interesting thing was that there was quite a variety of sites (a Christian site with a somewhat older crowd, a site devoted to games and mind puzzles, a site for computer geeks and a site dedicated to owners of Boxer dogs), yet they all had this thing happening where a lot more than 2% of the quiztakers were in the "2%".

The even more interesting aspect of it was, all of the posters on the various sites seemed to like the idea that they were in the extreme minority of the 2%ers except those on the Christian site. A lot of them seemed to be rather dismayed that they were in the "abnormal" group.

Fascinating study of human behavior, it would be great to a see a full analysis of this thing.

[Nihil]

13. Red screwdriver

(So much for probabilities then)

[sniffa]

14. yeLLow hammer

[ChickMagic]

42. Me too.

Yellow hammer.

[Jackpine Radical]

54. "Yellowhammer" is a bird

also known as the flicker.

[Spider Jerusalem]

15. That's very odd...

and I am apparently among the 2%. I thought of a Stillson wrench with a blue-painted handle.

[Goldmund]

16. I think it's the commie association.

Tool and a color -- you think of a hammer and the commie flag, which is mostly red with a yellow hammer.

I thought of a hammer and wasn't sure if it was yellow or red -- later I realized that what I was thinking of is the Soviet, or the Chinese, flag.

[parasim]

17. guess i'm in the 2%...

my hammer's green.

[Van Helsing]

18. I didn't take the stupid test...

does that make me abnormal? :evilgrin:

[TrogL]

19. white sledgehammer

A hammer is a common tool.

Many people identify "red" as their favourite colour.

I picked "sledgehammer" because it's my favourite tool to fix computers and "white" because I was looking at this page on the monitor which happens to display white.

[LDS Jock]

20. im 2%

but I choose green for everything since its my favorite color

[bubblesby2002]

21. That is very annoying I like to think I'm unique

But no - I'm the same as the other 98%. Damn

[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

22. Blue hammer here

[catzies]

25. me too! n/t

[hangar18]

118. Same here

[PittPoliSci]

23. blue wrench.

fuck yeah.

[smiley_glad_hands]

24. Silver Crescent Wrench

[nickinSTL]

27. Another

blue hammer

[ihaveaquestion]

28. Blue Hammer

What does it mean?

[kanrok]

33. It means that at least two of us said: "Blue Hammer"

That's my answer. A hammer is my favorite tool, for no reason I can articulate. Blue is my favorite color. There you have it.

[mac56]

58. Another blue hammer.

nm

[kanrok]

60. Hey, maybe we can form the "Blue Hammer Group"?

[skooooo]

144. blue hammer here too!

[eyesroll]

29. Blue drill.

I hung up a curtain rod (to make a closet door) this weekend. I used my blue drill/driver.

[Another Bill C.]

30. Yet another blue hammer.

I think all these blue hammers are a challenge to this theory. I just happen to have a hammer next to me and a blue shirt on.

[hyphenate]

31. I'm in the 2% category

I thought of a hammer, but a brown one.

[MrSandman]

32. Green hammer...

Validity studies? There cannot be two distinct per centiles. The 98 per centile may or may not be inclusive of the 1 per centile. There is only the possibility of 1-99 on per centiles.

[pmbryant]

49. Green hammer here too

98% would say 'red hammer'? Very doubtful to me. Even with all the hammers in this group, well over 2% chose a different tool. And the colors are all over the place.

--Peter

[Lizz612]

65. Me too

But I always choose green when asked for a color. :shrug: Why hammer anways?

[MrSandman]

77. Very common tool in many forms...

sledge, framing, ball peen.

In other words: I have no idea.

34. green wrench

whatever this test proves, I'm not sure.

[democratreformed]

35. silver crescent wrench

[MissMillie]

36. one of the 2%

I picked a yellow hammer

[2Sailsgirls]

37. There seem to be a lot of Blue hammers

and other tools.
I thought of a hammer and purple, by the way.

[Bossy Monkey]

67. Here's another, but I'm embarrassed I didn't think of Bush as the tool n/t

[GumboYaYa]

38. Yellow screwdriver for me.

[Guaranteed]

79. Me too...right on! nt

[Triple H]

39. I just thought of a blue Craftsman 14 amp Circular Saw...

with LaserTrac Technology.

Interesting...:shrug:

[TreasonousBastard]

57. For the same reason...

I thought of a yellow DeWalt drill.

It's on the shopping list isn't it?

[tjwash]

40. I'm a 2% er

I did not think of a red hammer, I thought about what I was going to make us for dinner tonight...



Maybe I have ADD...

[TN al]

43. I thought of a blue hammer too...

...are you going to put a post at the end of the thread and tell us it was a blue hammer we were supposed to be thinking of? It does seem to be a winner here.

[GreenPartyVoter]

44. Hammer and red for me *lol*

That test is so weird!

[youngred]

45. green saw

:shrug:

[joshdawg]

46. red monkey wrench

Do I split the difference? Half of me is in the 98% and the other half in the 2%? Does that make me schizoid?

[felonious thunk]

47. Purple Circular saw

Although in this context, I think that I was trying to fool the test.

[CrownPrinceBandar]

48. I'm in the 2%

but just barely. I thought of a BLUE hammer. Yay!!! I'm "different" and/or "abby-normal."

[Bertha Venation]

51. Do I win the Marty Feldman Prize? Yellow Wrench.

Damn my eyes!

[woofless]

52. My mind said" hammer,green".

What's that mean?

[elfwitch]

53. Green Shovel - 2% here

I don't get it...

[bhunt70]

55. I thought of a Blue Match. ??

[Guaranteed]

80. LOL you're a .02%er

I think :P

[Shananigans]

59. So I'm not sure if a rake is considered a tool...

but I thought of an orange rake. Does that make me weird?

[furrylitldevil]

62. 2%er here

I got needle nose pliers and brown

[Maestro]

63. I thought of a red saw.

How freakin' wierd. I am a 2%.

[everythingsxen]

I hate to say it but...

When I first read it took me by suprise and I thought of my, um, *blush* ... well the part of me that is different from a girl. ;-) And I thought "Huh-huh.. he said tool." Which of course made me consider the color pink, well, Caucasian flesh color.

After thinking about it for a half second though, I thought of a black axe. *shrug*

132. Thats Freudian

First you think of YOUR tool, then you think of a black axe?

Ouch!

[Lisa0825]

68. Blue Wrench!:-)

[Zorra]

129. Me, too.

[Zorra]

131. Blue Hammers and Wrenches - Is this some kind of "liberal thing"?

[Robb]

148. Another blue wrench here...

...although I come from a long line of plumbers, so it was bound to be some kind of wrench. ;)

[rbnyc]

70. I'm abby normal.

I thought of a blue screwdriver. I wonder why 98% of people would think of the same thing. Blue screwdriver really isn't any more creative or unusual than red hammer. Weird.

[geniph]

71. Green socket wrench

signed, Abby.

[LeftPeopleFinishFirst]

72. blue wrench

:)

[tinnyguy1777]

73. Wow-----Thats feckin scarey-------

"Hammer Red"

[GoddessOfGuinness]

75. I'm terribly disappointed in myself

I should've said blue monkeywrench.

[BringEmOn]

81. Hammer blue

[livetohike]

82. Orange hammer

eom

[SmileyBoy]

84. Sorry, Bub-a-lub. I got 6.

:P

[Zynx]

85. Green Saw

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

86. This is some sort of Pink Floyd thing, isn't it?

Actually I had a blue wrench - which is either a drink or a sexual manuever - and it was GREAT!

[Liberal Christian]

87. Yellow screwdriver

I've always known I was abnormal.

[Canuckistanian]

89. Orange Screwdriver here n/t

[LosinIt]

133. Orange Screwdriver also

Maybe I was thinking of the drink???

[Canuckistanian]

142. We're the 12-step 2%'ers n/t

[MrSlayer]

90. Orange Pliers

2%er!

[LWolf]

91. Blue wrench

it looks like way more than 2% of the lounge is 2%. ;-)

[everdene]

92. My hubby said "blue rake." Is a rake even a tool?

n/t

[blondeatlast]

93. Oh. My. God. Amazing.

And it wasn't the power of suggestion.

On th eother hand, will people who DIDN'T think of a red hammer 'fess up?

Not sure how to take these results--something else is going on here or else I'm becoming paranoid!

[blondeatlast]

94. Theory: I DID think red hammer from the beginning, but I wonder.

Since so many DUers claim to have had a different thought, is it the power of suggestion in the conclusion?

We all like to believe we are independent thinkers but I truly did think red hammer before it was "suggested" in the conclusion.

DUers by and large wouldn't fall for the "suggestion" or else they may not want to admit it.

Discuss?

[Champ]

96. Blue wrench

I don't get it?

[blondeatlast]

99. I will call out the yaks, kmla, if you don't come back to this thread!

Something just isn't right about this.

[ScreamingMeemie]

101. Purple Robogrip.

Don't ask me why. Perhaps because I used a Robogrip today. :shrug:

[RushIsRot]

102. Ocher Adze

[DrWeird]

103. Wrench. Pink.

Does that mean I'm gay?

[jmowreader]

104. I thought about a blue miter saw

Which is strange because I don't even like blue miter saws.

[Deja Q]

105. Close - black hammer

Actually, It said "tool and color" so I thought "hammer black".

So I'm semi-abnormal. What else is new? :D

[Interrobang]

107. A green wrench...

I must be wired weird. Well, then again, I already know I'm in "the 2%" for a number of criteria, so what's one more between friends?!

[LastKnight]

108. i was thinkin black screwdriver...

i never liked thinking the same way as others. donno why...

its those damn red hammers... thats it...

seriously how accurate is this?

-LK

[Generic Other]

109. DUers are in the 2% category. The alphas.

Brave New World...

[RoyGBiv]

110. Took a test like this once...

There are three aspects to this test.

1) Numbers and calculations
2) Symbols
3) Following orders

The trick, for lack of a better word, is in the instructions, which is the part that most people don't really consider as actually a part of the test, but which is actually the point of it. In other words, if you follow the instructions closely, you're pre-disposed to being in the "98%" because you're letting someone else dictate your behavior. That behavior is what gets the result desired.

The rest is based on the way the brain works. The test is designed to keep one half the brain engaged while the other half essentially sleeps (no writing or remembering required) long enough to develop a momentary pattern of behavior. That pattern does not deal well with the sudden necessity of thinking of a color and an object. The more closely you follow the instructions, the more likely you are to hit the suggestion of the red hammer before your brain can fully wake up and think of a color and object on its own.

The test is really about how well you have been indoctrinated into the "always follow the instructions" mindset.

[parasim]

123. Interesting thesis, but...

... where does it "suggest" the red hammer, except right at the end? I thought of a green hammer before I saw the bit about 98% say red hammer.

also, how does following the instructions pre-depose the quiz-taker to being in the "98%"? I followed the instructions very closely and still thought of a green hammer.

:shrug:

Most likely I am just thinking about this silly thing entirely way too much...

[RoyGBiv]

127. My explanation is flawed...

I looked at it again, and my explanation is flawed, mostly because I was basing it on the test I took, which was a bit different than this. It just seems to be based on the same premise. This is a kind of "magic trick," and it has several variations. One asks you to think of a vegetable, for instance.

In any case, this test works because of the way our left brains and right brains work, both separately and together. The point of it is to get your mind working on numbers and then have it switch quickly to objects and colors. There are subconscious symbolic relationships at work that interact with short term and long term memory, and I can by no means explain it. It also has something to do with timing between stimuli and response to the stimuli, something again that takes place on a subconscious level.

[kmla]

150. Yeah! What he said!

I agree! (See post below.)

[SarahB]

111. purple wrench

Lots of independent thinkers here or perhaps the test isn't all it's cracked up to be. :shrug:

[Kathy in Cambridge]

112. Blue Screwdriver here

I happened to use one today. i guess I'm in that 2%.

[screwfacecapone]

113. 2%

2 percenter! I guessed a black rake!

[Langis]

116. Red Hoe for me.

[Delano]

119. I guess I'm part of the 2 percent.

I read the first line or 2, then scrolled down to the bottom to read the end out of boredom, thus missing whatever allusion there is to a "red hammer".

Yay! I'm wierd!

[chenGOD]

121. Am I the only one who thought Orange ummmm "unit"?

n/t

[Gemini Cat]

122. I'm Abby Normal.

Axe... black.
Black axe.
I think I just scared myself!

[Indiana_Dem]

125. Red wrench!

Great!

[Selwynn]

126. Screwdriver and Pink

I've never figured out how things like this are supposed to make me think of the common thing. I've never gotten one of them right.. :(

I suppose I could feel proud of being a 2% person - but actually I just feel like i'm weird. :P

[corporatewhore]

128. Purple MonkeyWrench !!!

guess i spend to much time around activists

130. My Green Lathe puts me in the 2%, I guess. /nt

[imax2268]

134. Well...

the color was right...but wrong tool...I thought of Red Pliers...

[name not needed]

135. green bandsaw

[bloodyjack]

138. purple screwdriver

so does this mean i'm retarded, or what

[T_i_B]

139. I'm a blue spanner!

:wow:

[foxy]

140. 2% here

I thought of grey hammer

[SiliconMethod]

141. I'm one of the few here who is one of the many

Red hammer. That's all I can think of, and I took this test at least 5 times.

[NashVegas]

143. I'm Abnormal - well half abnormal

Yellow hammer.

[kmla]

145. If anyone is awaiting my return....

Here I am.

There was no scientific poll to decide the 98%/2% division. I was simply regurgitating a cut and paste e-mail that I had received.

However, I was freaked out in the fact that I had selected red/hammer - I always thought of myself as a non-conformist and individualistic free thinker.

Honestly, though, did everyone follow the directions? If you read, you were supposed to go through it as quick as possible, WITHOUT stopping to analyze what you were doing...

If you didn't, and possibly thought your answers through, (expressly against the rules, you naughty, naughty, people!) you probably wouldn't have come up with a hammer, or the color red. Oooor, maybe you would have. Hmmmmmm.

Think of it this way. If you were on Family Feud, in the speed round, what would be your response to these two questions?

"Name a color."
"Name a common tool."

Quick. No thinking. Would you still have the same answer? Maybe yes, maybe no. But I would hypothesize that a few more might have come up witht the red/hammer combo than actually did.

That's all I gots ta say...;-)

P.S. Don't forget - it is said that 72% of all statistics are made up right on the spot.

[Commendatori]

146. Silver wrench here.

Hey, silver is a color! :)

[Solly Mack]

149. I didn't say hammer-though I did say red

so, uh...hmmm...

[Robb]

151. Most popular so far:

...from too-much-time-on-his-hands Boy;

Blue hammer (by a landslide)
Blue wrench
Green wrench
Red hammer
Yellow screwdriver
Green hammer
Red wrench
Orange wrench
Silver wrench
Blue screwdriver
Green saw
Orange screwdriver
Yellow wrench
Blue drill

...and then everyone else. :)