"Called the Cognitive Reflection Test ( CRT), it has been around since 2005 but recently gained popularity on social media, with one TikTok user's breakdown of the three questions getting 14million views. The test was created by psychologist Shane Frederick, now at the Yale School of Management, to help predict whether people are likely to make common mistakes in thinking and decision-making."
"All three questions, asking about the price of a bat and ball, asking about the time it takes a machine to build widgets, and one asking about a patch of lily pads covering a lake seem simple, but are meant to appear simple but are surprisingly tricky. The first question is: A bat and a ball together cost $1.10. The bat costs $1.00 more than the ball. How much does the ball cost?"
The Cognitive Reflection Test (CRT) comprises three deceptively simple questions that often produce intuitive but incorrect answers requiring reflective reasoning to solve. Created by psychologist Shane Frederick in 2005 to predict susceptibility to common thinking and decision-making errors, the CRT has been administered to thousands of college students across multiple studies. Fewer than 20 percent of test takers answer all three correctly. The problems include a bat-and-ball price puzzle, a machine-widget production rate question, and a doubling lily-pad growth scenario, each designed to prompt a quick, wrong response unless the taker slows down and reasons carefully. The test recently reached viral attention on social media.
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