From Chris Flower
The letter from Eric Whitehead on IQ questions and the ambiguity of answers
(19 August, p 51)
reminded me of a question in my eleven-plus exam many years ago.
I was asked to select the odd one out from a cat, a dog and a television.
Should I select the television as the only non-animal, the cat as the one that
did not require a licence (as dogs then did) or, indeed, the dog as the one that
is not an odd one out? I do not remember my answer, but it taught me a lot about
those who ask questions.
Crawley, Sussex
