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OT: How smart are the Cardinal? - Spartandawg - 08-22-2014
A father and his boy are driving down 127 from East Lansing to Jackson to take a tour of the maximum facility prison when they get into a horrible car wreck. They are quickly airlifted to Grand Rapids Spectrum Hospital where, unfortunately, both are pronounced DOA. Moments later, one of the doctors sees the dead boy and shrieks, "Oh my God, that's my son!"Â
How is this possible? ???
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Re: OT: How smart are the Cardinal? - 81alum - 08-22-2014
The doctor is the boy's mother.
Re: OT: How smart are the Cardinal? - Spartandawg - 08-22-2014
(08-22-2014, 08:48 PM)81alum link Wrote:The doctor is the boy's mother.
Well done.
Re: OT: How smart are the Cardinal? - CornFed - 08-22-2014
Really? That was an IQ test? Seems more like a test of societal awareness.
Re: OT: How smart are the Cardinal? - stupac2 - 08-22-2014
(08-22-2014, 09:22 PM)CornFed link Wrote:Really? That was an IQ test? Seems more like a test of societal awareness.
Seems more like a test of having heard a 3-grade "riddle" before. I mean, you may as well ask the one about the rooster laying an egg on the top of a south-facing house.
Re: OT: How smart are the Cardinal? - Spartandawg - 08-22-2014
(08-22-2014, 09:22 PM)CornFed link Wrote:Really? That was an IQ test? Seems more like a test of societal awareness.
That's easy to say after alum81 already provided the answer.
Re: OT: How smart are the Cardinal? - CompSci87 - 08-23-2014
Did you really think that spoiled it for anyone? ::)
Re: OT: How smart are the Cardinal? - Trevmiesterj - 08-23-2014
Why does the riddle have to be so sad?
Re: OT: How smart are the Cardinal? - Leftcoast - 08-23-2014
This riddle is often used to demonstrate gender bias and has been around since the 70s. There's even been academic studies on the outcome answers parsed by age, sex, social background etc of respondents.
Re: OT: How smart are the Cardinal? - martyup - 08-23-2014
(08-22-2014, 08:48 PM)81alum link Wrote:The doctor is the boy's mother.
While that may have been the correct answer back in the 70s, today the politically correct answer would be that the doctor could have been the boy's mother or the father's husband.
Re: OT: How smart are the Cardinal? - Mick - 08-24-2014
(08-23-2014, 09:01 AM)leftcoast link Wrote:This riddle is often used to demonstrate gender bias and has been around since the 70s. There's even been academic studies on the outcome answers parsed by age, sex, social background etc of respondents.
I asked my hyperfeminist mother (she was one of the first 100 subscribers to Ms. magazine) that riddle in 1975. She didn't get it.
Re: OT: How smart are the Cardinal? - CowboyIndian - 08-24-2014
I heard Will Rogers tell it.
Re: OT: How smart are the Cardinal? - CTcard - 08-24-2014
I thought the riddle was going to be something about defining a "maximum facility" prison.
I'm stumped.
(08-23-2014, 09:01 AM)leftcoast link Wrote:There's even been academic studies on the outcome answers parsed by age, sex, social background etc of respondents.
At this point (this point being the past 20 years - or apparently 40+ years) is it possible anyone in these studies gave a wrong answer for any reason other than wanting to mess with the studiers?
Re: OT: How smart are the Cardinal? - Leftcoast - 08-24-2014
I'll be happy to be hear CI, Garvin, Nan3cy and Redrum's first hand account on pre Civil War feminist humor when they toddle over on their walkers. I'll meet them halfway on my three wheel scooter.
While I'm awaiting my "edjacashun", here's one lightweight article discussing research centered on the riddle.
http://www.bu.edu/today/2014/bu-research-riddle-reveals-the-depth-of-gender-bias/
Re: OT: How smart are the Cardinal? - Nan3cy - 08-24-2014
(08-24-2014, 08:38 AM)CowboyIndian link Wrote:I heard Will Rogers tell it.
You mean Columbus didn't kick an Indian for telling it?
Re: OT: How smart are the Cardinal? - Papa John - 08-25-2014
Given MSU's schedule, shouldn't Spartandawg be asking how smart the Ducks are? On an Oregon discussion board?