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<p>choose the correct answer:</p> <p>A) Yes</p> <p>B) No</p> <p>C) Cannot be determined </p>
More than80 percent of people choose C. But the correct answer is A.
Here is how to think it through logically: Eve is the only person whose marital status is unknown. You need to consider both possibilities, either married or unmarried, to determine whether you have enough information to draw a conclusion.
If Eve is married, the answer is A: she would be the married person who is looking at an unmarried person (Roy).
If Eve is not married, the answer is still A: in this case, Jak is the married person, and he is looking at Eve , the unmarried person.
This thought process is called fully disjunctive reasoning—reasoning that considers all possibilities.
The fact that the problem does not reveal whether Eve is or is not married suggests to people that they do not have enough information, and they make the easiest inference (C) without thinking through all the possibilities
Reference:
Rational and Irrational Thought: The Thinking That IQ Tests Miss Why smart people sometimes do dumb thingsJan1,2015 |By Keith E. Stanovich
C) Cannot be determined, as the marital status of Eve is not specified.
C. CANNOT BE DETERMINED.."is a married person looking at an unmarried person?" the scenario is not yet clear because it only says Jak, a married person, is looking at Eve, married/unmarried person, but Eve is looking at Roy, an unmarried person. therefore we're not sure if a married person is really looking to an unmarried person.
yes the married person looking at unmarried person
First of all it is an amazing question.well as per me yes a married person is looking at an unmarried person.
yes
