hard puzzle

Here\'s the thing though...I didn\'t use any paper

hmmmmmm a lot of people got the answer......do you think this means that humans as a whole have gotten, through evolution, much more intelligent in only a couple of generations?

Or maybe Einstein underestimated us

I told shock the answer...he\'s the cheater.

Ha, you wish.  Fayded\'s dumber than a brick...

:nerd:

heh i got it

like everyone said its more time consuming then anything

Originally posted by kokopuphz
I got the answer, but others beat me =( darn it.  But this many people in the 2% that Einstein declared?  Besides, where did the number 98% come from in the first place?

That was fun... Have any more?

U gotta think in his time people weren\'t as educated as we are today.

you sure einstein wrote this, its a very simple puzzle, thousands of which exist

einstein was a theoretical physisist, why would he write somehting like this?

yeh, how do u actually no he wrote it?

maybe cos there is so many puzzles only 2% of the population will ever see and solve it

Originally posted by mjps21983


U gotta think in his time people weren\'t as educated as we are today.

I don\'t see how education has anything to do with your ability to solve this puzzle.  If you can read it, then you should need nothing else.  You just have to reason through it.

And if you think it\'s easy, try doing it without writing anything down

Originally posted by Kimahri
hmmmmmm a lot of people got the answer......do you think this means that humans as a whole have gotten, through evolution, much more intelligent in only a couple of generations?

Evolution?  Ha.  I\'m sure us humans being more educated as a whole than back when Einstein supposedly did this is more likely the reason.

shockwaves,

I don\'t see how education has anything to do with your ability to solve this puzzle. If you can read it, then you should need nothing else. You just have to reason through it.

Being educated doesn\'t only mean you know a lot of information.  Education also refers to your thinking skills, problem solving skills, logic, etc.

And if you think it\'s easy, try doing it without writing anything down

But didn\'t you say that you didn\'t use paper?  And didn\'t you say that it was easy?

I did write it down, used notepad on my computer.  I\'m just saying though, maybe there was something more to it.  Like, perhaps, that you were supposed to do it in your head...

As for education, I still disagree with that.  The education I have received has done little to refine my skills in solving problems of this kind.  If I could have read and understood the problem, I could have solved it.

Originally posted by shockwaves
As for education, I still disagree with that.  The education I have received has done little to refine my skills in solving problems of this kind.  If I could have read and understood the problem, I could have solved it. [/B]

So at 8 years old, considering that you could read the problem and know what it was asking you do do, you could have solved this without too much difficulty?  Impressive... but I\'m not so sure about that.

I think education has done more for developing your mind than you are giving credit for.