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seekingferret ([personal profile] seekingferret) wrote 2013-04-19 03:06 pm (UTC)

That's one theory. My real point was that this kind of trivia connection processes itself through odd and unpredictable parts of the brain. When a person tries to describe their thought process of figuring it out, there are inevitably blind leaps and intuitions that defy explanation. And I love seeing how my brain handles those things.

It's not a hard question, and I wasn't trotting it out as an example of such. I'm not surprised that some people figured it out quicker than I did. It's a question that requires an interesting intuitive leap.

My experience says that I am often better at taking such leaps that other people while doing trivia. In high school quiz bowl, I was the second best player on our team, but I was the person we turned to when we needed a wild ass guess, because my wild guesses were right more often than anyone else's. Most of my WAGs were still wrong, because they were WAGs, of course.

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