h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

When I did this I thought of "red hammer", as did three other people of my aquaintance, whilst one got right colour, wrong tool, and another right tool, wrong colour. And then there was a 'green wrench'.

Red wrench - but I already knew that I'm a bit - at least I got the colour right!

Blue chisel! Really! So obviously I'm completely !

But don't you think that your choice of h2g2 skin might affect the result here? I prefer to view in Goo, which does rather predispose a person to think of blue!

I view in Goo too, but I don't believe it predisposes me towards blue...

...besides don't you think that whilst doing the mental calculations, one is distracted from any colour awareness/association?

Face it, you're just

hm... a blue hammer. interesting!

Red Spanner

blue hammer for me. but i did spend a long time trying to decide whether to choose red or blue as i was scrolling down....

spook

Hmmmm...do you think you were influenced by the Goo?

Is spanner and wrench same kind of tool?

...I don't want to be in the same way as Gnomon!

maybe i was influenced by that endless space of blue goo as i slowly scrolled down page admiring the blueness of the goo.

spook

Titania

A spanner and a wrench are the same (I believe 'wrench' is the American word for 'spanner').

So, yes my dear, I'm afraid you are in the same manner as Gnomon.

Yellow hammer - like the bird

You got me there - I thought of Hammer Red, which must be the same thing. But how does it work?


Hull

Stephen Pinker, the cognitive psychologist, says that we all classify things and then attach a rating to the classification to say how well the thing fits. For example, potatoes, cabbage, spinach, peas and carrots are all vegetables. But carrots are "better" vegetables than potatoes. They fit in with more of the things that vegetables do than potatoes. Meat, chips and two veg. You would not expect one of the two veg to be potatoes. In fact, carrots are the perfect vegetable: most people when asked to think of a vegetable will think of a carrot.

Leaving Pinker and going on to my own speculations, in the same way, Red is the perfect colour and Hammer is the perfect tool. So most people think Red or Hammer or both.

Sounds probable to me, Gnomon, but I thought of this alternative: hammer is the most active, obvious tool, (the brain preferring strong images), and red is connected with its potential violence and anger, (as well as being perhaps the strongest, most violent/active colour).

I pictured the hammer and the colour separately in my mind, as I suppose most people who got the 'right' answer did.

Hull

So what does picking a blue screwdriver mean then?

Menza (probably influenced by Goo )

When I first worked in a certain middle eastern country, every electrician was issued with a toolkit consisting of one hammer.

Menza

A blue screwdriver...it means you're very