Which is the odd one out?

[Darth Cupcake]

The first one.

It's trying too hard to blend in with the others.

[Bebek Sincap Ratatosk]

Number Two, all of the others have two colors (red/green and black).

[Triple Zero]

#1 - it's the only one which doesn't exhibit any unique properties. I.e. it's a trick question.

doesn't that make #1 unique, however?

OMGPARADOX

[AFK]

I pick #6. 

[Captain Utopia]

please explain your choice in this thread.

#1 - it's the only one which doesn't exhibit any unique properties. I.e. it's a trick question.

doesn't that make #1 unique, however?

OMGPARADOX

I don't think that is a logical paradox. As in, the set contains four irreducible descriptive properties - #1 contains all four, #2-#5 only contain three each:

	Is Square |	Is Red |	Is Large |	Has Border
1	*	*	*	*
2	*	*	*
3		*	*	*
4	*		*	*
5	*	*		*

If there were a sixth element - a round, green, small and borderless shape, then there would be no basis for distinction.

[Rumckle]

There is a case for all of them, but the second one jumped out at me first, so I picked that one.

eta:
Wait, no I pick the big white rectangle in which they are encased.

[Elder Iptuous]

Wait, no I pick the big white rectangle in which they are encased.

Sir Not-appearing-in-this-poll.....

[Cramulus]

Can I vote for all of 'em? They're all spags!



oh - also I voted for #1 because it is odd in that there is nothing unique about it.

[Chairman Risus]

I'm stealing this and putting it on the facebook. May end up posting results if anything interesting shows up.

[Fredfredly ⊂(◉‿◉)つ]

#2 annoys me. good enough reason

[Iason Ouabache]

I picked #4 because I'm intellectually lazy.

[Triple Zero]

please explain your choice in this thread.

#1 - it's the only one which doesn't exhibit any unique properties. I.e. it's a trick question.

doesn't that make #1 unique, however?

OMGPARADOX

I don't think that is a logical paradox. As in, the set contains four irreducible descriptive properties - #1 contains all four, #2-#5 only contain three each:

	Is Square |	Is Red |	Is Large |	Has Border
1	*	*	*	*
2	*	*	*
3		*	*	*
4	*		*	*
5	*	*		*

If there were a sixth element - a round, green, small and borderless shape, then there would be no basis for distinction.

put in a table like that, that makes sense, yeah.

[Golden Applesauce]

These problems never actually have a right answer.  You can always pick one object and create a rule that describes every other element, but not the object chosen.

#1 is the only one with all four properties, #2 is the only one with a white border / no border, #3 is the only one that isn't a square, #4 is the only number which is a perfect square (2x2), #5 is the only one on the extreme right side, #6 is the only one not appearing in the poll, etc.

I had a psych professor who would put these kinds of questions on her exams (only with psychology terms instead of shapes) and seriously expect students to come up with the same rule and answer she did - the questions were weighted double.  For some of them, four of the five terms related to one experiment (but if you thought of a different experiment, all of them were related, or didn't think in terms of experiments but in terms of semantics, a different one was the stand-out.)  Others were weird - sometimes the "answer" was "all but this word have the same root word" - so you couldn't even count on the relation being in the field of psychology.  And if you justified your answer with a rule she didn't like ("it's the only term without a hyphen in it") she just refused to give you credit.

[Precious Moments Zalgo]

I'm stealing this and putting it on the facebook. May end up posting results if anything interesting shows up.

I did that too.  I posted the picture along with these lyrics from a Sesame Street song:

One of these things is not like the others,
One of these things just doesn't belong,
Can you tell which thing is not like the others
By the time I finish my song?

Followed in a comment by:
Did you guess which thing was not like the others?
Did you guess which thing just doesn't belong?
If you guessed this one is not like the others,
Then you're absolutely...right!

[President Television]

I chose 2 because fuck it, it's the only one without a thick black border.

This is the first one that caught my eye.