Showing posts with label Karl Duncker. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Karl Duncker. Show all posts

Friday, December 3, 2010

Human reasoning

"The candle problem" is a classic experiment of insight put forth by Karl Duncker in 1945.

Each subject is given a candle, a box of tacks, and a book of matches and asked to attach the candle to a wooden wall.
If you were a subject in the test, how would YOU do it?

Tomorrow: the Duncker solution.
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Relax Max's supplimental: Duncker's problem is fine for college students, but much too simple for the people who read my blog, sooo... can you do it without the matches?