There's a reasonably entertaining article about the 'Stroop Test' in today's Guardian. You can create this at home and time yourself, but I'm not going to reproduce this here - you will have to buy the paper/look online yourself. I have never come across this before, but it's quite an interesting insight into the way we work things out - or at least I think it is.
I think it was the BBC that ran a quiz at the weekend about Pokemon stories - True or False? This listed a number of media stories that purported to be about playing Pokemon, and then exposed the false ones. I managed to got half correct, but what amused me was how extreme even the true stories were. Or were they? - How do you verify a story is really 100 % true or not? For example, the New Zealand man who has left his job to play Pokemon full time. I was told about this one last week by one of my colleagues and pondered at the time if it was true, but (according to the BBC) it was false.
..or was it? I don't suppose we can ever be 100% sure that that sort of story is true, so my score might be slightly better..or worse.
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