The most twisted question that has been put in an exam. And it is relevant.
Dylan Selterman offered her Social Psychology students the opportunity to earn extra points for answering this question.
Some teachers have the habit of putting extra questions in the exams for those students who want to raise their grade. They are usually more difficult issues than usual, but a professor at the University of Maryland, in the United States, has taken the matter to a higher level.
Dylan Selterman, who is the teacher's name, offered his Social Psychology students the opportunity to earn extra points, choosing between two options. This was the "question":
"Select if you want to add 2 or 6 points to the final grade of your exam. But there is one small drawback: if more than 10% of the students select 6 points, then nobody gets any points".
The professor explained that every year he tries to present his students with a real problem that is known as the "tragedy of the commons", that is, a situation in which several individuals, motivated only by personal interest and acting independently but rationally, they end up destroying a limited shared resource (the common one) although none of them, either as individuals or as a whole, agree that such destruction will happen.
If all the students had chosen to raise their grade two points now they would all have a better score. But it was not like that. "I have been doing this exercise every semester since the first time I taught at the university, in 2008," the professor told. "Only once did the students stay below the threshold of the selfish option (and I think it was a matter of chance)".
Because my will is as strong as yours and my kingdom as great ...
You have no power over me.
Dedicated to Valent and DeltaT
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A woman was looking for wood for her kitchen, near the river, when cutting a branch of a tree she escaped and ax from her hands and went to the bottom of the river.
The woman prayed and begged God, then, He appeared and asked:
Why are you crying woman ?
The woman replied that her ax had fallen into the river.
God entered the river, took out a golden ax and asked:
Is this your ax ?.
The noble woman replied:
Nooo God, is not that.
God entered again and took a silver ax from the river and asked again:
Is this your woman ax ?.
No!, the woman replied.
God returned to the river again and took out an ax of iron and wood and again asked:
Is this your ax ?.
Yes, she answered, that's it.
God was so happy with the sincerity of the woman who sent her back home, giving him the other two axes, the gold and the silver.
The woman went with her beloved husband to show him the place where he saw God. Suddenly, he stumbled and fell into a river.
The unhappy woman, who could not swim, began to pray and beg God, He appeared and asked:
Woman, you again ? Why are you crying now ?
The woman replied that her husband had fallen into the river and drowned.
Immediately, God entered the river, dragged Brad Pitt out of his hair and asked the woman:
Is this your husband ?
YES, YES, YES!!!, the woman replied.
Then God was furious:
You are a liar !, he exclaimed.
But quickly the woman explained:
God, excuse me, but it was a misunderstanding ... If I had said no, then you would have brought me George Clooney from the river and told him again that it was not him either, you would have brought me my husband, and when I said yes, then you would send me to my house with the three men!.
But I am humble and well bred, with moral principles and I could not commit ... polygamy!.
That's why I said yes to the first one.
God found the woman's comment fair and forgave her.
Moral:
"WOMEN HAVE SUCH GOOD ARGUMENTS THAT EVEN GOD BELIEVE THEM".
They never lose !!!.
Because my will is as strong as yours and my kingdom as great ...
You have no power over me.