From: Jasper
Date: 12/1/2004
Time: 8:19:17 AM
……….Some people wonder how I can claim to have knowledge as opposed to opinions about some of the evidence and testimony in the O.J. Simpson case still open to debate. If you have taken a lot of tests on your abstract reasoning skills and you have followed my reasoning in these cases, you know. If you haven’t, here are two typical problems on these tests that everyone here CAN answer correctly – but not everyone will: ……….A man gets shipwrecked off an island inhabited by a strange tribe of people where a tenth of the people ALWAYS tell the truth and nine-tenth of them ALWAYS lie. You can tell the men of the tribe apart on sight because the liars wear purple loincloths and the truth-tellers wear yellow ones. ………As the shipwrecked man’s lifeboat approaches the island a fog rolls in so that he can see only the outline of thee figures. He calls to the fist one, “Are you a Truth-teller or a Liar? ………The first one answers but a wind rises up and takes the answer away. ………The man in the lifeboat asks the second islander, “What did he say?” ………The second islander says, “He said he is a Truth-teller. I am a Truth-teller, too. ………The third islander says, “I am a Truth-teller. The first two guys are Liars.” ………The fog lifts and the man in the boat can see who was telling the truth and who was lying but he KNEW the answers before he could see any of them clearly. ………How did he know? ……….You can solve this logic problem in more than one way. If you have a good memory and you read Iago or something else where a similar conundrum appears you can let your memory do the work. Or you can go through the process of separating relevant information from irrelevant information planted to deceive you and work it out from there. I won’t have to tell you the answer because you will KNOW it when you get it. There will be NO DOUBT. ……… When you get it please don’t post it. Just indicate whether you got it or you didn’t. Your answer has nothing to do with your intelligence. It has everything to do with your personality, your patience and the fact-finding strategies you rely on that have served you well in the past. That’s the key to how the Bundy killer got away with murder. --Jasper