{"id":83882,"date":"2024-07-29T16:40:44","date_gmt":"2024-07-29T09:40:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/justmetalking.com\/?p=83882"},"modified":"2024-07-29T16:40:44","modified_gmt":"2024-07-29T09:40:44","slug":"when-people-were-super-confident-in-their-answers-despite-being-really-really-wrong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/justmetalking.com\/when-people-were-super-confident-in-their-answers-despite-being-really-really-wrong\/","title":{"rendered":"When People Were Super Confident In Their Answers Despite Being Really, REALLY Wrong"},"content":{"rendered":"

When People Were Super Confident In Their Answers Despite Being Really, REALLY Wrong\n

The puzzle requires individuals to calculate the age of a person using the given information. The puzzle states, \u201cWhen I was two, my sister was twice my age. Now that I\u2019m 40, how old is my sister?\u201d\n

The simple question got a ton of answers in the comments. People shared all kinds of math solutions and had different answers. One person said, \u201c42 na, unless she\u2019s also aging twice as fast then she\u2019d be 80 now,\u201d while another added detailed math, \u201cThe age difference between the two siblings is 4 \u2013 2 = 2 years. Therefore, the person is now 2 + 40 = 42 years old. Their sister would be 4 + 40 = 44 years old. I\u2019m 44 years old.\u201d\n

\u201cAt 2 your sis was twice your age,that\u2019s 4. Literally 2 years older. If you\u2019re 40,she\u2019s 42. Simple,\u201d someone else mentioned..\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When People Were Super Confident In Their Answers Despite Being Really, REALLY Wrong The puzzle requires individuals to calculate the age of a person using the given information. The puzzle states, \u201cWhen I was two, my sister was twice my age. Now that I\u2019m 40, how old is my sister?\u201d The simple question got a\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":83885,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[232],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-83882","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-quiz"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/justmetalking.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/79-1.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/justmetalking.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83882","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/justmetalking.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/justmetalking.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justmetalking.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justmetalking.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/justmetalking.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83882\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justmetalking.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/justmetalking.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justmetalking.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justmetalking.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}