People responding to studies assume the questions to make sense; if there’s a question that seems to not make sense, they suspect it’s a trick question or that they don’t understand the instructions correctly, and try to do something that makes more sense.
A question that says “the right answer is X, please write it down here” doesn’t make sense in terms of how most people understand tests. Why would they be asked a question for which the answer was already there?
I’m guessing that most of the people who got this wrong thought “wtf, there has to be some trick here”, then tried to check what the answer should be, got it wrong, and then felt satisfied that they had noticed and avoided the “trick to see if they were paying attention”.
This study was done via Google ads that block content, which means the people taking the study were thinking “How do I get this ad to go away so I can watch my video”.
People responding to studies assume the questions to make sense; if there’s a question that seems to not make sense, they suspect it’s a trick question or that they don’t understand the instructions correctly, and try to do something that makes more sense.
A question that says “the right answer is X, please write it down here” doesn’t make sense in terms of how most people understand tests. Why would they be asked a question for which the answer was already there?
I’m guessing that most of the people who got this wrong thought “wtf, there has to be some trick here”, then tried to check what the answer should be, got it wrong, and then felt satisfied that they had noticed and avoided the “trick to see if they were paying attention”.
This study was done via Google ads that block content, which means the people taking the study were thinking “How do I get this ad to go away so I can watch my video”.