These sorts of brain-teasers are of limited help in developing your critical thinking skills for dealing with real world problems. Here the problem is presented to you and you just have to figure out what went wrong with a train of thought. In the real world, the BIG problem is noticing that there is a difficulty in the first place.
I think what’s striking about this example is that it’s not just a misstep in a train of thought; it’s the riddler flat out lying to the riddled, forcing them into a certain pattern of thought.
These sorts of brain-teasers are of limited help in developing your critical thinking skills for dealing with real world problems. Here the problem is presented to you and you just have to figure out what went wrong with a train of thought. In the real world, the BIG problem is noticing that there is a difficulty in the first place.
I think what’s striking about this example is that it’s not just a misstep in a train of thought; it’s the riddler flat out lying to the riddled, forcing them into a certain pattern of thought.