Talentfree

Damn it! Bloody test.
I am approaching my 29th birthday. Thus, I am a physically and mentally mellowed person. I can count up to 113 (since I have been in Laos, I can even cope with numbers exceeding the million), I can tie my shoestrings (oops, actually my boots have zippers and my sandals do not have...well..nevermind), I can think on a concrete operational stage (how would my bookshelf look like, if I placed another Shakespeare, Rembrandt, Goethe in there...) and all in all I do not want to be told that I haven't reached the stage of formal thinking.
Yeah, I know I did not get the result.
I appreciate the way you explained that not getting the result does not necessarily mean that one is stupid or anything accordingly. It just means that Jean Piaget's tests were pretty much focused on people who like mathematics. And you also try to tell me that the reason for failing might be the lack of realistic context in this test. You claim that I would be able to solve problems requiring formal thinking if only they are embedded in a natural context. That's why you provide the loser's (called "ME" in this case) with a second chance.

But then.......you give the ME this stupid test on 4 envelopes: "how many envelopes do you have to turn around to find out whether the hypothesis.......".

Pardon me? You are asking how many of these I have to turn around to find out whether they are attached with a stamp? Goodness gracious me, how do I know? We are living in the age of email and internet - who would be so stupid to buy even one stamp nowadays? That's a waste of time and money. Therefore, I boykott the answer.

And now? Now, you do not really now what to say...there is no excuse. You try to find your way around saying "well..even though 81 percent of all people managed to cope with this task this does not mean....yeah, well...well...one can draw the conclusion that formal thinking has to be connected to prior experience of the person. And it is not determined by age. At least not only. Well, yeah, this contradicts Piaget's thesis and actually we wanted to support it with our tests...yeah, well...but still....do not believe that you are a talentfree person, no matter how many failures you had. You are certainly a formal thinker, it is just....yeah, well....Anyway...nevermind. Just forget about everything you have done in the last 20 Minutes. Go to bed. Take a rest. Enjoy life! That's the only important thing! Become a free thinkers...
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And now leave this page, please and never ever visit us again! It was a pleasure to have you as our test person. Farewell..."

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Here, the story ends. And the nearly 29-year-old non-formal thinking and talentfree-person-in-nearly-everything will now withdraw to her bed-chamber.

CARPE NOCTEM.