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I recently got an email asking me if I was smarter than a preschooler. It was confirmed that I wasn’t. Let’s see how you do.
Which way is the school bus traveling?
Look carefully at the picture if you are having a hard time.
Preschoolers all over the US were asked which direction the school bus was traveling and 90% said that the bus was traveling to the left.
When asked how they got that answer, they said…
The bus had to be traveling to the left because the door was not seen.
Now how dumb or smart do you feel? Don’t forget to vote to let us know if you got the direction correct.
FYI, I did not get it right. Let’s hope Karen did.
mi 3 triplet sisters that are 4 1/2 all got it wrong but i got it right and i am 12 and mi twin sis jen got it right to
1471 days ago
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i dont know how you answer but it is going left
Intuition said ‘left’. I went along. This from an ‘old fart’.
“…same handwriting as Santa Claus…”
Oh that’s funny! That’s TOTALLY how I found out that Santa was really mommy. I was 5 that year and she’d written my name all over my school stuff, as well as had me practice writing my name too. So when I saw my (and my sister’s) Barbie clothes case, I instantly recognized the handwriting and had to explain the situation to my 7 year old sister! ;-)
Wonder how I’d have done on this back then? I did ride the bus then…
Ask those smart kids why their parents have the same handwriting as Santa Claus, and see what you get for answers. Then we’ll see who’s smarter.
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I showed this to my middle school kids. None of them got it either. It was alot of fun. Does anyone know where you can get more puzzles like this one? My kids loved it!!
I am not smarter than a preschooler either
Now if you lived in Australia and said right you would be correct ~~ as the door to the bus is on the opposite side, being the left side in this case.
mrwhisk,
you certainly have a different way of looking at things
xD
I said left because I always used to draw vehicles like that pointing to the left. We drive on the left so the door thing didnt even cross my mind.
1622 days ago
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Sarah: I don’t think either one of us anticipated such a response to what was intended to just be something for fun. I can’t get over how some people are getting bent out of shape about it. Oh well, we are enjoying the traffic to our site! :) I hope that you’ll stick around for some thrifty tips.
This is hilarious to read down these comments! I bet you didn’t know that this simple question was going to generate so much “opinion” among your readers!!
I thought it looked a bit like a bus was coming towards me…
I think the ‘wheels’ are headlights and the windows are rear windows…hehe :D
Sorry, Joe. I think you get a partial pass since you have more current experience.
It could be traveling to the right if it were backing up.
Hi,
im 13 and go on a school bus nearly every day and i got this wrong
:(
The bus is going nowhere. And it’s not a bus. It’s probably a UFO or a robot or some other thing. It’s not a bus because you can’t see any mechanism piecing together the wheel and the bus cabin, unless it’s a futuristic bus that preschoolers have seen in a movie or some other prophetic medium.
I can see that the 90% statistic is a made up factoid. Cool.
I can also see from my crystal ball that the annoyed Dan (1.0.0) was over-reacting on a silly game geared towards making fun of us and our adult outlook on arguably abstract stuff.
I can also see, in accordance to prophecy, that I have too much time on my hands to be posting this in thriftymommy.com. I have to get back to work. Thanks for the trip. Bus trip?
Without clear visual cues, how can you tell which way the bus is going? A door would be a visual cue, but in a cartoon drawing like this one, no door is visible. And, for an adult, it therefore doesn’t really mean much. I don’t know whether I got it right or wrong. Because, just looking at the picture, without any visual cues, I had no way of knowing which way it was traveling.
Anne G
I think most preschool and homeschooled children have seen a school bus before.