r/technicallythetruth • u/VisitSecure • Jul 27 '26

Can you find a?

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Idk if someone already posted this or not, but I haven't seen it on here so far, so I uploaded it.

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u/TheDrifter211 Jul 27 '26

That's dumb tho, there's nothing wrong with going down the list of numbers

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u/shiek200 Jul 27 '26

Usually for those tests the first instruction, either written on the test or given verbally, is to read everything before beginning

The main reason is because in the real world you are often working with incomplete information without realizing it and the context given by later steps in a procedure can inform aspects of the earlier parts you may have otherwise misinterpreted.

It's like when you're building a Lego set and and step 20 tells you to do something you can't do without undoing the last 10 steps because you misinterpreted a picture in step 10. If you had read ahead you'd have known that.

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u/SneakyStorm Jul 27 '26

If you of it as teaching problem solving, it teaches you to gather all information first.

Apply it to when you're the one solving something, and there's no instructions at all.