Comment by felix089
1 month ago
That's a fair point, but if you would see it as a riddle, which I don't really think it is, and you had to answer either or, I'd still assume it's most logical to chose drive isn't it?
1 month ago
That's a fair point, but if you would see it as a riddle, which I don't really think it is, and you had to answer either or, I'd still assume it's most logical to chose drive isn't it?
I don’t agree that the question as written would qualify as a riddle. If anything, the riddle is what the intention of the asker is. One can always ask stupid questions with an artificially limited set of answering options; that doesn’t mean it makes sense.
I don't think it qualifies as a stupid question either, it does make sense
It is TOTALLY a stupid question, because OBVIOUSLY you should drive. It is based on the false premise that there is actually a choice. If somebody were to sincerely ask me this question, actually believing that walking was an option, I'm not sure I could resist the temptation to say "walk", just to see what happens next.
Only slightly evil, because the worst-case consequences are an unnecessary 100m walk. I think I could get that past an ethics committee, if I wanted to run an experiment to see what percentage of human responders would ACTUALLY walk to the car wash.