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I was imagining people saying this in reference to a diagram like that (labelled with percentages instead of 1-5).


It's possible that two people would say numbers like this despite having the same experience and referencing the same diagram, but I would bet that very few people are that bad at interpreting the diagram.


Maybe I am one of those few people :) I don't know how to interpret that diagram. Based on some of the comments here I would put myself at #1, and based on others at #5.


A simpler test. Imagine a ball on a desk.

What color is the ball?

People who are #1 respond immediately, just as if you asked them about a real object in front of them. #4/#5 will ask “what do you mean what’s the color? I can imagine it to be a certain color” - in their head the ball is just an abstract concept labelled “ball”, it doesn’t have a color by itself.




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