First part mentally distracts, and disorientates. Second part gets people to reach for first colour and first tool. Its like the old Red Elephant trick. Given a specific letter and told to think of an animal, the majority pick elephant. Its mildly interesting but you cant deduce anything other than statistical bias to information retrieval with a cultural/social pattern to the result. If that made sense. If it wern't for the first part, you might be more able to be unusual in your choice, which they don't want. They want to illustrate the pattern in our first and instinctual choice. Math is good for that unbalancing.
Red Hammer... pictured it right quick, "hammer. red handle." heh, I even looked back to see if it flashed something, but hey, at least I got the all the math right. And in my defense, my hammer had a metal head, which isn't really red. hehe.
But it's true, if you choose to suspect you're being fooled or tested or something, you can easily force yourself to come up with something unusual, especially if you know it is a "test of `special` creativity" before hand. I think it's more of a test of how willing you are to embrace and neurological experiment than it is a test of creativity.
My bet is than that a person would access either: -a word-image recognition center to associate the first tool that comes to mind, then the first color that could be imagined on that tool... not necessarily a red hammer, but that's kinda a common choice. or -a creative center we often call upon for creative story telling/writing and lying (which is about the same). The person might be thinking, this is a trick, quick, come up with something original, even if it would not otherwise be the first thing to come to mind.
Wild.
Same goes for ink-blots. I could tell you I see flowers when I really see dead bodies, but in the end, the fact that I was obviously lying says as much about me as if I were to have told the truth.
(I do realize people were joking. lol. I just thought this was a cool neurological experiment and figured I'd delve into wild conjecture)
My first thought when the test even started was an Orange Carrot, yeah, I know, original color. But I have to agree with Doc_M because you knew it was a test and most were expecting some result so they were coming up with the most unusual thing they could think of.
Crap... I saw some comments before doing the test, so I don't think me ending up with a green shovel really means anything.
On a side note, I have never seen a red hammer. My hammers are always just metal-colored... was the test to get people to think of the color of the most common tool they've seen, or is tool/color choice separate? I can't imagine seeing a red hammer, so I don't think that I would have come up with that result regardless.
I thought of the band Tool, then the color green. Probably because the drummer and singer were in the Three Little Pigs video for the band Green Jelly.
I'm guessing that all of the math questions leading to a question un-related to math makes your mind quickly think of the most basic answer, which for tool would be hammer (in Westernized countries) and for color would be one of the primary colors?
wihich?
wihich can't spell or use grammar.
HAHAHA! Gorgonheap, you're probably the most creative one here.
But it's true, if you choose to suspect you're being fooled or tested or something, you can easily force yourself to come up with something unusual, especially if you know it is a "test of `special` creativity" before hand. I think it's more of a test of how willing you are to embrace and neurological experiment than it is a test of creativity.
My bet is than that a person would access either:
-a word-image recognition center to associate the first tool that comes to mind, then the first color that could be imagined on that tool... not necessarily a red hammer, but that's kinda a common choice.
or
-a creative center we often call upon for creative story telling/writing and lying (which is about the same). The person might be thinking, this is a trick, quick, come up with something original, even if it would not otherwise be the first thing to come to mind.
Wild.
Same goes for ink-blots. I could tell you I see flowers when I really see dead bodies, but in the end, the fact that I was obviously lying says as much about me as if I were to have told the truth.
(I do realize people were joking. lol. I just thought this was a cool neurological experiment and figured I'd delve into wild conjecture)
"don't think of pink elephants" phenomenon happened...
Am I 50% of 2%
On a side note, I have never seen a red hammer. My hammers are always just metal-colored... was the test to get people to think of the color of the most common tool they've seen, or is tool/color choice separate? I can't imagine seeing a red hammer, so I don't think that I would have come up with that result regardless.
Also, gorgonheap wins the intertubes.
... no one else 'got love for the hoes?
Yellow Crescent
I AM CREATIVE, BOW BEFORE ME!
Yellow wrench.
Red wrench.
I suppressed my creativity