LOL! This post about how weird humans are when it comes to trying to classify things is spot on! The example given is if you gave a person alphabet magnets and two boxes, one labelled “even” and one labelled “odd” they’d start trying to sort the letters into the boxes immediately. And if you don’t agree with that theory, just read what happens in the thread:
So what do you think? How would you classify odd and even letters? I agree that even is the rounded, curvy letters. And odd would be sharp and pointy and probably all the vowels (except maybe O). LOL, let us know your thoughts in the comments below!
I’d assign every letter a numerical value (as is 1 b is 2 c is 3 d is 4 ect) then add the odd values on the odd box and even in the even box
You didn’t get it…
No, Chris did. Their brain went “sequence” and that’s the way to sort. That is exactly how my brain went, too. I would number the sequence and then sort. Not to say that some of the “this feels ‘even’ which is round and smooth” and “that feel ‘odd’ which is spiky” is the next type of sorting I might do. But my initial sort … sequence.
You could always divide them according to which magnetic pole would be facing the surface they’d stick to; North would be Even because both words contain the letter “N”….
For me, letters (and numbers) aren’t even/odd, but they do have gender.