Wordwind: I think you missed my point completely and then proceeded to make it yourself.

It wasn't a standardized test with correct and incorrect answers. (In fact I never used the words correct or incorrect in my post.) It was a verbal interviewing technique to discern the sophistication of the thinking of the subject. I found it depressing how many people seemed locked into a mode of concrete thinking. Many such people lack the intellectual ability to do well in this world, and are easily manipulated by others (advertising, politcal campaigns, propaganda, etc), and I find that depressing.