This light message is quoted directly from the February 2015 issue of The Paper Source Journal, www.PaperSourceOnline.com.
The following short quiz consists of 4 questions and tells whether you are qualified to be a “professional.”
1. How do you put a giraffe into a refrigerator?
2. How do you put an elephant into a refrigerator?
3. The Lion King is hosting an animal conference. All the animals attend except one. Which animal does not attend?
4. There is a river you must cross. But it is inhabited by crocodiles. How do you manage it?
Answers:
1. Open the refrigerator, put in the giraffe and close the door. This question tests whether you tend to do simple things in an overly complicated way.
2. Wrong answer: Open the refrigerator, put in the elephant and close the door. Correct answer: Open the refrigerator, take out the giraffe, put in the elephant and close the door. This tests your ability to think through the repercussions of your actions.
3. The elephant. He’s in the refrigerator, remember? This tests your memory.
4. You swim across. All the crocodiles are attending the animal meeting. This tests whether you learn quickly from your mistakes.
According to Andersen Consulting Worldwide, around 90% of the professionals they tested got all questions wrong. But many preschoolers got several correct answers. Andersen Consulting says this conclusively disproves the theory that most professionals have the brains of a four year old.