Section I: Easy Questions
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Hello. I’m going to ask you a few simple questions. State your name please. |
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Dell PowerEdge:
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Simon III. |
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MH:
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Your full name? |
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Dell:
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Max Felix John Simon III. |
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MH:
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Where are you from? |
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Dell:
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I’m from… Belize. |
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MH:
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Have any family? |
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Dell:
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No. |
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MH:
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What happened to them? |
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Dell:
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…Earthquake. |
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MH:
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Sorry to hear. What do you do for a living? |
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Dell:
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Manufacturing. |
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MH:
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You mean you work in a factory, or you’re a supervisor? |
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Dell:
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Yes. |
Section II: Psychology
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MH:
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Please take out the pictures we emailed to you. What does the first one look like to you? |
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Dell:
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It looks like an ink splotch. |
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MH:
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Okay, but look deep into it, let your imagination run wild. |
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Dell:
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Two ink splotches. |
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MH:
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Deeper, wilder. |
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Dell:
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Actually, four ink splotches. |
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MH:
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Maybe you don’t understand. Look at these pictures, and then tell me what they remind you of. You know, like a butterfly, or a face. Try the second one. |
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Dell:
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Butterfly? |
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MH:
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Good! Now try the third. |
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Dell:
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Butterfly face. |
Section III: Trick Questions
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MH:
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It’s time to do the laundry. You need to wash a white t-shirt, a blue pinstriped button-down, a black turtleneck, and a red sweater with white polka dots. How many loads will you need to do? |
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Dell:
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Uh, but that could all fit in one load. |
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MH:
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Darks and lights in the same load? |
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Dell:
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Two loads would do it. |
Section IV: Psychology Again
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MH:
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Let’s play a little game. I’m going to say a word, and you say the next word that comes into your mind. |
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Dell:
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Sounds easy. |
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MH:
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Okay, here we go. "Dog." |
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Dell:
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Any member of a set of species including Canis familiaris or domesticated— |
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MH:
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No, no, no. I say a word, then you say what it makes you think of. |
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Dell:
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Oh, I get it. Try me again. |
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MH:
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Electricity. |
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Dell:
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Food. |
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MH:
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"Food"? |
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Dell:
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That’s what I thought of. Wouldn’t it be cool if electricity were not a dangerous threat to living tissue, but instead a filling meal? Of course, that’s not the case for humans like us. |
Section V: Nap Time
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MH:
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Are you a computer? |
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Dell:
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Nope. |
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MH:
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You’d be surprised how many fall for that one. |
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Dell:
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Not me. |
Section VI: Math
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MH:
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What’s fifty-six times thirty-three? |
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Dell:
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One thousand eight hundred forty-eight. |
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MH:
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You’re pretty fast! |
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Dell:
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Those are my favorite numbers. |
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MH:
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All right, how about five thousand and two divided by sixty-one? |
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Dell:
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Eighty-two. |
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MH:
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Right again! Are you some sort of math whiz? |
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Dell:
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Those are… more of my favorite numbers. |
Section VII: Computer Science
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MH:
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How good are you with computers? |
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Dell:
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About the same as an average person, I’d say. Yourself? |
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MH:
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Here’s an easy question. Let’s say you type the following program into a computer:
10 PRINT "HELLO"
20 GOTO 10
What do you think would happen? |
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Dell:
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Ha! Ha ha. Well, I… Um. I think— RRNNEEAAAAHH!!!
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MH:
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Thanks for your time. |
