MIT professor Shane Frederick's Cognitive Reflection Test is a three-question brain teaser with only a 17 per cent pass rate ...

Cognitive reflection and decision-making competence refer to the capacity to override intuitive, automatic responses in favour of more analytical and deliberate thought processes. This field ...

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The 'world's shortest IQ test' has only three questions, but it's far from easy to pass. A study by MIT professor Shane ...