This test is based on the Stroop Effect, an event that happens when conflicting streams of information interfere with your brain’s reaction time. The test measures how quickly you can recognize 5 matching colors and 10 mismatching ones.
After testing 2000 adults, 79 percent were able to get all five matching colors correct, while only 21 percent of respondents scored a perfect 10 out of 10 for the mismatching colors. They believe that different factors may affect your score such as age, emotional state, and how much you exercise.
Take the test over at Mental Floss and comment down your score.
What are your thoughts on this one?
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On the flip side: I use this activity with my teachers to illustrate how quickly we identify words as skilled adult readers. When you ask people to NOT read but identify the color, it's amazing how slow they can get while doing that task--their reading actually interferes with the color identification. It's so hard to "not read" when you're a skilled reader [e.g., try NOT to read an "EXIT" sign!] that we forget what it's like for our beginning readers who haven't cracked the code yet. We want our young students to build that automaticity so they are not decoding every word. It's a fun way to get teachers to understand how skilled they are themselves because it's become so automatic with years of practice.
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15 out of 15. higher than 80% they said. probably slower than the others. getting slow in my old age
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15/15 -0.611 seconds. Evidently not difficult.
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15/15 0.887 seconds.This was supposed to be hard?
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That was fairly easy.
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