98% This is a really freeky test.....try it

[Douglas Carpenter]

I tried this and it worked - no gimmicks - I guess I'm part of the common herd then! DO NOT LOOK AHEAD!!

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[AllegroRondo]

1. I failed.

I thought "blue screwdriver"

[conscious evolution]

67. Holy shit! So did I!

[zanne]

108. WEIRDOS! nt

[eyesroll]

2. 2%. Blue drill.

:shrug:

[crim son]

66. Oh my god. Me too, a blue drill.

So weird.

[eyesroll]

68. I own a blue drill.

:shrug:

[crim son]

70. You do?

I don't even own a drill and I thought the blue drill guess was totally bizarre. I guess not!

[Solon]

131. Me too!

That's weird!

[EFerrari]

137. Me, too.

:wtf:

[BarenakedLady]

3. Great...

I'm abnormal. That's a shocker. :eyes:

I thought pink wrench.

[mainegreen]

4. Green Nails

:shrug:

[dr.strangelove]

5. 2% Green Hammer

I always think green whenever I am asked to name a color fast. Its usually the first color that pops into my head.

[Beausoir]

44. Green Hammer here, too!

[philosophie_en_rose]

69. me too. green hammer.

:shrug:

[terrya]

116. Green hammer also!

My favorite color is green.

[Saphire]

136. green hammer....wierd.

[deucemagnet]

6. Blue hammer.

We're on a democratic web sit. Our tools are blue.

[Avalux]

7. Blue hammer here too!

Great minds think alike, I guess. :hi:

[deucemagnet]

13. Three blue hammers now!

And no red. Weird. :hi:

[LSdemocrat]

11. Same here!

[deadparrot]

16. Another blue hammer here.

:hi:

[meegbear]

19. Another blue hammer ...

Red hammers are for repukes.

[Godhumor]

22. Ditto for blue hammer

Of course, the immediate thing I thought was a "Blue Yellow" so I might be a bit more warped than I thought. Blue hammer came after I realized yellow probably didn't work as a tool.

How the hell do you use yellow as a tool?

[likesmountains 52]

27. Blue Hammer too!

[eyepaddle]

37. Blue hammer here too,

I seem to remember something like this years ago though--in that one I was in the 98%. Or whatever it was....

[elfrangel]

41. 2% of the population

I thought of a blue hammer as well.

[Beausoleil]

46. Blue hammer here! n/t

[Lydia Leftcoast]

76. Another blue hammer

:-)

[Robb]

110. Another blue hammer here. nt

[Zavulon]

125. Yet another blue hammer. (NT)

[mzteris]

130. my son just said blue hammer, too.

:bounce:

[marzipanni]

8. Red screwdriver.

49%?

[otherlander]

51. Hey, me too!

[Fla Dem]

142. Red screwdriver here too.

[azmouse]

9. yellow shovel

I just KNEW I was unique! :evilgrin:

[S n o w b a l l]

109. Me too!

We even have the same avatar....now that is weird! LOL!

[Cadfael]

10. 2%

orange hammer

[THUNDER HANDS]

12. i thought of a brown rake

does a rake even count as a tool?

[haf216]

14. 2% blue hammer

[FedUpWithIt All]

15. Sorta two percent

My brain pictured a wrench and immediately after the word hammer.

Odd

Did red tho

[trackfan]

17. I said green wrench.

[amitten]

24. I said red wrench. I think hammer is the most commonly used

tool by the most people, hence the tendency to think of it.

As for the color, who knows?

[SPKrazy]

18. Red Hammer Here

that freaked me out!

:scared:

but I seem to be the only one?

that's weird either way

[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

20. Orange jigsaw

[Yavin4]

21. I Said Blue Saw

This looks like spam to me.

[zingaro]

47. This was my thought too. nt

[Lyric]

23. Blue wrench, for me. n/t

[SoyCat]

38. 2nd

[Fleshdancer]

25. red wrench

what does it mean if you think the same color but a different tool? Cool little test.

[Mad_Dem_X]

26. Orange screwdriver!

I love being different. LOL

[trof]

28. Red hammer and I did NOT do the math.

Just scrolled down to the question.
What's doing the math have to do with anything?
:shrug:

[devilgrrl]

29. 2% - Blue Wrench

[Arkansas Granny]

30. 98%. Is this supposed to signify something?

[Wcross]

31. A mauve miter-box??? boy am I screwed up! n/t

[YankeyMCC]

32. They got the color but not the tool

I thought of a red drill.

[PVnRT]

33. Green torque wrench

Torque wrenches are proof that there is a God and He loves us very much and wants us to tighten bolts to the proper specification.

[idgiehkt]

34. yellow screwdriver

probably because doing math makes me want to drink.

[tbyg52]

62. Hey there, fellow yellow screwdriver!

I have *no* idea what that means, or why you're supposed to think of a red hammer.

[idgiehkt]

88. it might have something to do with those toy set we play with

as kids. that would be our oldest memory of a hammer, those plastic ones. I don't think the math has anything to do with it.

[RFKHumphreyObama]

100. Me too -yellow screwdriver

[Maraya1969]

35. I thought of a hammer and a monkey and then I read the directions again and thought brown

A hammer and a monkey?:shrug:

[bicentennial_baby]

36. purple hammer

[LoveMyCali]

91. I came up with purple hammer too

Does that mean we are only a little bit unusual since we had the common tool just not the color?

[Little Wing]

39. Bloody hacksaw

:shrug:

[Hosnon]

40. HOLY SHIT...I said, outloud: "Hammer......red"!!!

That's freaky.

What's the connection between addition and red hammers?

Edit: Or perhaps a red hammer is the first tool that we think of, statistically? It is one of the most basic tools and one of the primary colors...?

[Douglas Carpenter]

89. sounds like a reasonable theory

and perhaps the math is more of a distraction to keep someone from thinking about it first.....just trying to make an educated guess myself as to why I also said "red hammer" out loud.

[WhollyHeretic]

42. Orange crescent wrench

:shrug:

[ceile]

43. green hammer

[anarch]

45. hmmm...a purple Kevin Federline

I guess I have some issues.

[youthere]

115. ..

:spray:

[BreweryYardRat]

48. 96%.

My mind jumped between a red hammer and a red screwdriver.

[puerco-bellies]

49. Blue Hammer here.

Hmmmm.

[judaspriestess]

50. I thought of a black hammer

n/t

[SOteric]

52. Heh. 2%. Peach & Screwdriver

[bigwillq]

53. Blue wrench

and I can't add in my head very well so I failed this test!

[Sugar Smack]

54. Orange wrench. *slaps forehead* You see? I'm fucked.

x(

[wovenpaint]

55. 2%... I thought of a purple

sawzall!

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:
I'm really weird

I even did the math!

[fleabert]

56. Blue hammer...nt

[LostInAnomie]

57. Blue Screw Driver

[soleft]

128. Me Too!

[mac56]

58. 2%

Red wrench.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

59. orange wrench

Orange is kind of red....

[Sugar Smack]

75. OMG! We're the SAME EXACT PERSON!!

:rofl: :pals: LOLOLOL!

[xmas74]

60. Black sander.

I guess I'm abnormal.

[WritingIsMyReligion]

61. I said a red screw.

:P

[wildhorses]

63. 2%

blue screwdriver

[Tony_Illinois]

64. White -- GW Bush

[rug]

65. Yellow screwndriver.

[Mojambo]

71. 2% - Red Chainsaw. n/t

[AngryAmish]

72. I'm normal

First I ever heard that

[spacelady]

73. Yes, a red hammer.

[SPKrazy]

74. How Come So Many People Pick Something Else

A Red hammer is all I could think about

that means were "normal" spacelady!

:rofl:

[spacelady]

85. Well, throw me in the normaltoruim, then.

Maybe we are humble & un pre...naaahhh. My kid still thinks I'm cool.

[Quakerfriend]

77. green hammer here.

weird, very weird.

[Pierre.Suave]

78. Well...

I am in the 2%, but I may have been influenced by the "battery operated friend" thread.

[TheFriendlyAnarchist]

79. I'm a blue hammer plan myself. Can't touch this!

[TK421]

80. I thought of a blue hammer....

[LuLu550]

81. Pink Screwdriver

wtf??

:silly:

[Bread and Circus]

129. me too

I did not think I would see another

[Dukkha]

82. Black & Decker

does that count as a tool?

[lavenderdiva]

83. 2% here: purple hammer

hmmm... there's a lot of us 2%'ers in here...

[mzteris]

112. Well it IS the Lounge, doncha know!

:rofl:

[EstimatedProphet]

84. I have a different, perhaps abnormal mind that thought of a blue hammer

You may not have known that - the blue hammer bit. Likely you knew the abnormal bit.

[bertha katzenengel]

86. Okay. I want to know WHY!

Why is it red hammer?!

[Douglas Carpenter]

90. MJDuncan1982 in post # 40 has a plausible theory

[Generic Brad]

87. Red handsaw

But I knew long ago I was destined to view the world from a different perspective. The last time I took a Meyer's-Briggs test the category I was in also represented 2% of the population.

[HCE SuiGeneris]

92. Blue saw here..... wonder if Freeperville

gets more red tools? :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[Bullwinkle925]

93. Of course I'm part of the 2%ers ...

Why would I not be abnormal??

Blue Shovel for me.


:crazy:

[mzteris]

113. ooo-oooo-- me, too!

I was wondering if anyone else thought Blue Shovel.

[HERVEPA]

132. Red Shovel

Red my favorite color. Always buy red cars.
I won't let the Republics co-opt red!

[astral]

94. I said 'blue hammer' too.

I also got impatient with the additions and little thingys in there that nobody could figure out how to 'calculate,' so I started just scrolling down without doing any figuring. . . . probably why I couldn't have figured out I wanted to say 'red hammer!"

[suzbaby]

95. Brown Hammer

:shrug:

[AmyDeLune]

96. 2 percent, Red Shovel n/t

[ghostsofgiants]

97. Red saw. HA, I win, you stupid test.

Red hammer? What kinda commie bullshit is that, anyway? :P

[BlueIris]

98. 2%. Well, my final thought was "orange" "hammer."

But what was in my head was green and lug wrench. I think. Not sure if that really counts.

[gr8dane_daddy]

99. Not sure what I am...guessing 2%er...

I thought of red shovel.

[sweetheart]

101. blue paintbrush - abnormal

:-)

[ChoralScholar]

102. uhhh.... Orange Screwdriver.

[chknltl]

103. Red hoe....

damn, as usual, I only got it part right. I confess to giving up on the math at about the midway point...perhaps that is where I screwed up. (never cared much for math)

[hyphenate]

104. 2%--I've done this one before

but I did say red because I'm actually surrounded by red at home, but said pliers and not hammer. Also thought of a screwdriver as well.

[Kiouni]

105. That's cool! n/t

[Bzzzz]

106. 2% green hammer here...n/t

[Guava Jelly]

107. I said red and wrench

guess Im special :silly:

[mzteris]

111. 2% - Blue shovel....

I knew I was abnormal........ :eyes:

[youthere]

114. WOO HOO! I'm abnormal! Orange drill!

[AzDar]

117. Yellow hammer. A long, throbbing, yellow hammer..lol.

[av8rdave]

118. Wow...I was a blue hammer

[nuxvomica]

119. I thought of a red trowel

:shrug:

[MissMillie]

120. I wonder how many would

pick "red hammer" without all the calculations...

[Puglover]

121. Purple hammer.

Very weird.

[Katina]

122. blue hammer

probably because blue is my favorite color and a hammer is probably the most commonly used tool.

[1gobluedem]

123. Me too

Red is a very negative color for me; represents the GOP and Ohio State. I never think of it first.

[Katina]

124. I disassociate

color from my political preferences since I think red can be a hot exciting color..and I look good in it too! :evilgrin:

[Flying Dream Blues]

126. 2% Blue wrench.... nt

[rhiannon55]

127. 98% red hammer

Dang! I thought I was a free thinker...:shrug:

[CottonBear]

133. 2%: Blue Hammer. Shout out to my fellow Blue Hammers! n/t

[musiclawyer]

134. Purple chainsaw! Yikes

Must have been that good weed a few weeks ago

[UrbScotty]

135. Holy $#!^, red hammer - 98%!! (nt)

[montanto]

138. purple hammer here

[Ekirh]

139. Red Wrench . . 2 %

So the color they were looking for... but not the tool.

[mzteris]

140. OMG - my OTHER son just said

Blue Hammer. (The 13 yo did that, and now my 8 yo!)

(I said blue shovel... Wait until hubby gets home and let's see what he says....)

[Fla Dem]

141. 2% Red Screwdriver n/t

[LuLu550]

143. The color was purple

the tool..my brother....

No, really..he is such a tool!

[DeposeTheBoyKing]

144. I said "orange hammer"

So I'm only half weird, right?

[many a good man]

145. Prototype Theory

http://www.thecorpuscle.com/2005/07/red_hammer_thin.html

Prototype Theory takes the position that in learning a word, we are taught (or discover for ourselves) a single or sometimes a couple of primary exemplars of the set of things the word refers to. When we learn the word "bird" we pick out robins, for instance, as exemplars of the set of birds with other birds deviating from it to varying degrees and in varying ways. Close to it would be cardinals and sparrows. Further away would be seagulls. At the remotest end would be penguins, perhaps. In my classes, when I would give the "red hammer" test, I might ask some students to name a type of bird and others to draw a bird. The word "robin" came up most frequently and drawings of a bird almost invariably showed a robin-like bird standing, rather than flying.

What the "red hammer" test proves is that "red" is the paradigmatic color for people (and not just for English speaking people) and "hammer" is the paradigmatic kind of tool. So, those who see the "red hammer" test as separating out two types of “minds” are being conned.

Explained:

Okay, according to Stephen, the deal is that repetitive tasks bring you into the now and bring you away from preconceptions. Under those circumstances, when told unexpectedly to think of a color and a tool, you are more likely to come up with the statistically most common responses.

In other words, the boring long list of caluclations are pretty much irrelevant except for the fact that they are boring and repetitive tasks which serve the purpose of bringing you "into the moment", making you disinclined to ruminate on what your answer to the color/tool question will be. And once your mind has been so preset, when you are asked the color/tool question, you will go to the answer that is statistically most common. It doesn't have to be a color and a tool. It could be a pet (likely "dog", I should think), or a bird (I've no idea what would be the likely answer here).

There's nothing magical about "red" or "hammer". And there's nothing magical about the specific calculations you are asked to do. It's simply that if you ask people, after a series of repetitive tasks to name a color, 98% of the people you ask will say red. If you ask for a tool, they will, usually, say hammer.

I answered "red hammer".

[jmowreader]

146. I thought of an orange screwdriver

But I'm supposed to be orange every day.

[NMDemDist2]

147. 2%

I thought of the red pliers on top of the freezer I just cleaned this morning

:rofl:

[unsavedtrash]

148. 2% n/t

[Irreverend IX]

149. Red hammer = normal mind?

This test is scientifically dubious to put it mildly. I thought of a red screwdriver, probably because that's the tool I most recently used. I suppose hammers are the most iconic tool in modern American culture, but there are bound to be many variations, certainly more than 2% of the population.

[warrior1]

150. Yellow screwdriver