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newt@stereophonic.space
I asked my gf to answer this and she failed utterly. She has two university degrees. She also drinks water from various vessels multiple times a day. How the fuck does this even work? 
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@newt just showed the missus and she thought about it for while then went for her water bottle on the desk to see what happens if she tilts it but I stopped her before she could cheat.
She got it right but not before a lot of thinking time.
She got it right but not before a lot of thinking time.
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@newt
A diploma is just a pdf file that says you have a lot of debt you can't default on.
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newt@stereophonic.space
@Zeb we're not overweight yanks. She doesn't have student debt. It's not really a thing anywhere outside of the US of A.
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newt@stereophonic.space
@joey i somehow believe this is due to women having worse spatial awareness. Same reason most mathematicians are men.
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@newt
Oh shit, then it's even worse. That means the taxpayers paid for her "education".
She leeched off the men who pay taxes and got out scot-free.
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newt@stereophonic.space
@Zeb except she also is forced to pay taxes, so she just got her money back that way. I generally support extracting as much money from the government as possible.
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@newt they think about the liquid exiting the neck (in motion)
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newt@stereophonic.space
@scuti I had to explain to her that the surface of a liquid always stays parallel to the ground. It's not something she thought of.
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This doesn't have anything to do with me.
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newt@stereophonic.space
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newt@stereophonic.space
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@newt Was she really not able to figure out that the water would stay flat or did she try to figure out exactly what level it would be at and get stuck
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@newt
I honestly thought the question was about what height should the edge of liquid be at (ie below above or at the corner facing the other glass)
I honestly thought the question was about what height should the edge of liquid be at (ie below above or at the corner facing the other glass)
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@newt ...what are her degrees in?
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newt@stereophonic.space
@scathach economics and linguistics
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newt@stereophonic.space
@scathach I mean, she's clearly not retarded and in fact is quite bright. What really puzzles me is, she drinks water every day. Everyone does. How does one avoid building an intuition for this thing?
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newt@stereophonic.space
@scuti @scathach not sure. The pic is from a study showing that apparently almost a half of college-educated women struggle with tasks like this. It's so bad it even got a Wikipedia page, for fuck's sake!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water-level_task
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water-level_task
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mirq@tsogol.tsiran.org
@newt can you show us the final result? Like what she thought the answer would be
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newt@stereophonic.space
@mirq I resorted to asking her to choose from multiple answers. She picked number three.
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m0xEE@breloma.m0xee.net
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@newt if someone asked me this i'd think for way too long because there must be a catch and i'm missing something. Like they'd want the exact water level or smth and not just how the surface is oriented
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