Can you solve the candle conundrum?
by Ben Ambridge from on (#XHQD)
Take this simple Observer quiz and find out how flexibly you think
Here's a test that will really get on your wick. You have a small candle, a box of drawing pins and a book of matches. Your task is to attach the candle to the wall so that it does not drip on to the floor below it. What do you do?
Answer Pin the box to the wall and then stand the candle in it. If you thought of pinning the candle to the wall or melting some of the wax and using that to glue it on, nice idea, but it doesn't work (go ahead, try it). This test is commonly used by psychologists to measure the personality trait of "functional fixedness".
