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Towers Of Hanoi as an extraversion/introversion test

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Well I suppose it fits. I saw the relative pattern to the puzzle pretty quickly, and realized that you don't exactly have to follow a solid pattern. In essence it's a "solve itself" puzzle to me.
 

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They found that extroverts were more likely to complete more variants of the puzzle in a three-minute period, suggesting those who are good at problem-solving are also good at living their lives to the full.

How does this even...?
 

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That was fun. Give me something harder so I can feel like an idiot.
 

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My thought process was essentially -- "Oh, right; I can just move this piece here and this other piece there, and there are smaller ones and eventually they can all be migrated over and I can mess with the stackings and shit and I'll get the answer. Yeah that's good enough." So I had a halfassed solution in less than 20 seconds. I don't know whether that counts as having solved the problem in less than 3 minutes.


Here's the abstract for the actual research article: How Extraversion + Leads to Problem-Solving Ability - Springer

The study states that Hedonism and Stimulation, two subtraits of the Big Five's Extroversion trait that deal with "living life to its fullest," are linked to succeeding in this task. Since all of the subtraits in a trait are supposed to be at least somewhat positively correlated (otherwise, why lump Gregariousness and Hedonism into the same trait?), it's kind of extrapolated from there that Extroversion plays a role.
Extraversion predicted problem-solving ability through the mediating effects of pleasure-oriented values, Hedonism and Stimulation. The findings suggest that being high in extraversion or pleasure-orientation may not be sufficient for the individual to be good at solving problems. However, extraversion in association with pleasure orientation leads to greater problem-solving ability.
Being engaged in puzzles and deriving pleasure from solving them makes you better at solving those puzzles. The article, especially its title, doesn't follow from this at all.


But that doesn't mean that this phenomenon isn't interesting. It's still interesting as hell.

Just.. .. c'mon, media. C'mon.
 

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My thought process was essentially -- "Oh, right; I can just move this piece here and this other piece there, and there are smaller ones and eventually they can all be migrated over and I can mess with the stackings and shit and I'll get the answer. Yeah that's good enough." So I had a halfassed solution in less than 20 seconds. I don't know whether that counts as having solved the problem in less than 3 minutes.


Here's the abstract for the actual research article: How Extraversion + Leads to Problem-Solving Ability - Springer

The study states that Hedonism and Stimulation, two subtraits of the Big Five's Extroversion trait that deal with "living life to its fullest," are linked to succeeding in this task. Since all of the subtraits in a trait are supposed to be at least somewhat positively correlated (otherwise, why lump Gregariousness and Hedonism into the same trait?), it's kind of extrapolated from there that Extroversion plays a role.
Being engaged in puzzles and deriving pleasure from solving them makes you better at solving those puzzles. The article, especially its title, doesn't follow from this at all.


But that doesn't mean that this phenomenon isn't interesting. It's still interesting as hell.

Just.. .. c'mon, media. C'mon.

Thank you for taking the time to look up and clarify that line of the article. The title was absolutely ripe with fascinating implications but that line made me feel an absurd amount of grief. Like my dog had just died or something.
 

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They found that extroverts were more likely to complete more variants of the puzzle in a three-minute period, suggesting those who are good at problem-solving are also good at living their lives to the full.

Ugh, I hate this quote.

I can definitely see how Extroversion can help to solve problems with the propensity to attack them in a hands on way. There are some things a person can more efficiently learn about by engaging with instead of planning for, especially problems that feature things that aren't in one's experience, either first hand or by proxy.
 

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Thank you for taking the time to look up and clarify that line of the article. The title was absolutely ripe with fascinating implications but that line made me feel an absurd amount of grief. Like my dog had just died or something.
it actually took a little while to find because the article doesn't cite a source. The next article I stumbled upon used another article as its source. And then other stuff. There was a huge game of reverse-telephone going on there, as per usual.
 

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Guys, According to this science I'm a introvert.

I guess I was wrong about myself T.T

Science is never wrong.

Damn it, now I have to reprogram myself to be antisocial and stuff.
 

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Guys, According to this science I'm a introvert.

I guess I was wrong about myself T.T

Science is never wrong.

Damn it, now I have to reprogram myself to be antisocial and stuff.
Or you could just become (even more?) really really cheerful around people and be the life of the party all the time and so on etc. etc. to improve your score on Towers of Hanoi.
 

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[MENTION=22264]jscrothers[/MENTION] ...Whoops. Took the wrong quiz...

Anyway, I played the Tower of Hanoi Online. Used only 5 to ply. *first time playing*



Took me 52 moves and 152 seconds to solve it.

According to the article, It took extroverted participants less then 3 minutes to solve it.

But they didnt put down how many blocks the participants played with...

But if they DID use only 5, then I am among the extroverted.

YAY :3
 

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[MENTION=22264]jscrothers[/MENTION] ...Whoops. Took the wrong quiz...

Anyway, I played the Tower of Hanoi Online. Used only 5 to ply. *first time playing*



Took me 52 moves and 152 seconds to solve it.

According to the article, It took extroverted participants less then 3 minutes to solve it.

But they didnt put down how many blocks the participants played with...

But if they DID use only 5, then I am among the extroverted.

YAY :3
What about for 1 block?
 

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Oops, I meant 1 disk.

I think I totally misread and just fucked up a joke I was trying to make

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Pfft, Towers of Hanoi? I can solve a megaminx. Doesn't make me extroverted.

 

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Yeah? Well, I can solve uh

uhm

towers of hanoi

Ok but seriously though - there's a very simple mathematical formula to solve every tower of hanoi in the least number of moves.

If there's an odd number of discs, you move the first disc to the right peg. If there's an even number, you move the first disc to the middle peg. After that you never put an even disc on and even disc, and never put an odd disc on an odd disc. This leaves you with always one legal move which will force the least number solution no matter how many discs there are.
 
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