A question autistics have an easier time answering

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14 Mar 2011, 12:26 am

I thought of the answer you put down the bottom straight away but then thought. what if this guy was a person the mum knows but not the sister? Maybe she could killl the dad as there could be better odds he may know the person than the sister.

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14 Mar 2011, 1:07 am

Well I didn't get it. Clever though.

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14 Mar 2011, 1:12 am

Chronos wrote:

Well I didn't get it. Clever though.

Me neither. And as I've heard it before I know lots of NTs who instantly got it.

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14 Mar 2011, 1:33 am

Jediscraps wrote:

How would one know, or assume, that the man the woman fell in love with, would know her sister, if she herself didn't even know him before the funeral? It could be only the mother knew the man and both sisters did not know him.

If the sister did not know the man he would likely not attend her sister's funeral.

If the sister knew the man, how come the only way the woman could maybe even meet the man again, would be to kill her sister? Couldn't she just ask her sister about the man instead?

It was these very thoughts that stopped me from thinking of the answer.

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14 Mar 2011, 1:57 am

I got it right away, I didn't even have to think about it.

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Your right, it'd make more sense to kill the father (assuming he is still alive) if the mother knew him, there's a good chance the father would as well. either way though, it would be likely that if he heard about a death in the family of a woman he knew he would come to the funeral.

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If the sister did not know the man he would likely not attend her sister's funeral.

Again, if he was friends with the mother then he might.

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If the sister knew the man, how come the only way the woman could maybe even meet the man again, would be to kill her sister? Couldn't she just ask her sister about the man instead?

Because the logical answer is that if he came to one funeral, he'd come to another one. especially if he knew the family.

Besides, maybe the the first sister is afraid that the second sister also likes the guy, and she want's to eliminate the competition.

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14 Mar 2011, 2:11 am

Jediscraps wrote:

This is what went through my mind after reading the answer. Before reading the answer, I had no idea. There wasn't enough information to come to a reasonable conclusion.

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14 Mar 2011, 2:16 am

I got the answer as soon as I read the question.

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14 Mar 2011, 2:25 am

mikeseagle wrote:

Jediscraps wrote:

Good point. The riddle would be better if it ended like this: So she kills his sister

Being able to kill his sister would mean that she would be in contact with his family, so she could just ask his sister for his contact information, no breaking of the law necessary.

But I didn't get this, I had no idea. I've always been horrible with riddles though.

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14 Mar 2011, 2:28 am

This reminds me about John Hinckley Jr who was obsessed with Jodie Foster so he shot Ronald Reagan to get her attention. He thought she would come and see him if he killed him.

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14 Mar 2011, 2:34 am

1. It is not stated how the man is related, if in anyway, to the mother. He could have randomly came to the funeral for all we know.

A. Going by this, he is just as likely to randomly appear at any funeral and thus it would be more logical for the woman to visit the next funeral that occurs in that area.

Why the familial emphasis?

Anybody who finds this logical I would deem a likely candidate for psychopathy, but maybe I'm a sore loser for not figuring it out.

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14 Mar 2011, 2:43 am

I had two possible answers come to mind pretty much immediately after I read the riddle. The first was that the man she had fallen in love with was her sister's husband, and that's why she killed her. But then I realized that if this was the case, she would already have his contact information/ probably would have met him at some point prior to the funeral. The second idea that popped into my head was the correct answer. So yeah, I got it within 2-3 seconds.

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14 Mar 2011, 2:50 am

No offence, but this sounds like a bit of rubbish pop psychology to me.

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14 Mar 2011, 2:57 am

Don't worry, I thought that too.

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14 Mar 2011, 3:08 am

I've heard this one before. I didn't get it. I never get riddles, but I love remembering them to try out on other people.

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14 Mar 2011, 3:48 am

TheMidnightJudge wrote:

There's a question that seems be (in my very limited experience) far easier for autistics to answer than neurotypicals.

Consider the following question:

At her own mother's funeral, a woman meets the man of her dreams. She falls madly in love with him. But once the funeral is over, the woman has no way to contact the man. So she kills her sister. Why?

(answer below)

She's hoping the same man will come to her sister's funeral.

Logically the answer is very clear, but in my experience, neurotypicals have a hard time getting the answer. I got the answer very easily, and my autistic friend did as well. I've only met one neurotypical who could get the answer. She's a thousand times smarter than me, and a professor in psychology; however, if memory serves, my autistic friend and I got the answer faster.
When I presented my little theory to her afterwards, she said perhaps the autistic ability to process logic and emotions separately was the reason autistic people could more easily answer this question. A neurotypical has to sort through the complicated emotions brought up by a woman who falls in love with someone at her mother's funeral, and then kills a sibling.

So what do you think guys? Did you get the answer? Could we include similar questions on a hypothetical autism test?

I wouldn't have gotten the answer at all because I don't believe murder is justified for anything but self defence. Casually killing someone who the person should care for, for the possibility to see a guy again who may not return their affections is highly illogical to me.

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14 Mar 2011, 1:20 pm

i got it quickly, but i thought i may have been wrong

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