Ok, I'm not really sure if kids get it right, but after all - they do have all sorts of experience with school buses. Perhaps they do get it right more than adults, after all - experience will trump age and straight up smarts most days of the week.
Here's the test:
Look at the images carefully. Which way is the bus moving?
Ok really.. the only possible answers are right and left.
The answer is below the fold...
Keep scrolling for the results
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According to this site:
The pre-schoolers all answered "left."
When asked, "Why do you think the bus is traveling in the left direction?" they answered:
"Because you can't see the door."
Here's your results.
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There are nearly 500 complete responses to the survey from last week. Here's a CSV file of the results. Below the fold are the frequencies as well as N's. I might report some trends in the data, but a lot of it is predictable.
It turns out the answer is "yes" ...
... according to Yahoo Answers.
Also, in answer to the question, "Can a Jedi Lighsabe cut through Superman?" the answer is: It depends.
Nice to see Yahoo Answers deals with the subtleties.
Here's a logic puzzle for you: Suppose I offer you a million dollars, in return for which you agree to answer a certain yes/no question. You can answer either truthfully or falsely as you desire. That's it. Should you accept that offer? Solution below the fold.
The two most annoying kinds of "hits" from an internet search are:
I chose left. But that is only because the afterimage seemed quite a bit stronger when I moved my eyes to the left than the right.
Up. Because the page scrolls up.
I had to guess, because I thought the bus was moving AWAY (i.e. that's the back of the bus, as it's driving away from you).
Woo hoo! I figured it out, by asking myself how I'd board this bus... then it was obvious the drawing was of the left-side of the bus.
Reminds me of the Groucho Marx quip:
A four-year-old child could understand this report.... Run out and find me a four-year-old child. I can't make head nor tail out of it.
Well, the door is on the left on buses here...
The reason I chose right is that is the more common direction you face things in western art and illustration (might have something to do with the direction you read) and there's more free space to the right of the bus on the page, again suggesting movement across the field.
Well, in UK, India and many other countries, vehicles travel on the left side of the road, and the buses consequently have their doors on the left side!
So, I can claim that the bus is moving to the right!
-Vishvas Vasuki
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in the UK too.....whinge, moan
The trams (Ok, not strictly a bus, but actually very similar in outline to the drawing (more so than most buses!)) I travelled to work on have doors on both sides.
i feel had by a bunch of preschoolers.
Even though you can't see a door, there's nothing to indicate which is the front and which is the rear.
Why do you assume it's a bus ?
well I guess it could be a space craft - or perhaps its not anything just abstract art not representing anything except pure visual pleasure.