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“How old is the shepherd?” – The problem that shook school mathematics (mystudentvoices.com)
2 points by lsh123 on Oct 17, 2016 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment



This is an interesting observation that also applies to other (non-mathematical) problems. Our minds try to find answers even if there is no data to deduce it. Thus, we come up with (un-)logical explanation and get the result that looks "about right" to us, but of course has nothing to do with the reality.




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