Hi Everyone,

This little exercise will be used as input into my next post about non-transitive relationships between preferences. So far, I have two posts that investigate non-transitive relationships. My first post ’Game Theory #7– Transitivity’, describes transitivity in detail. My second post ’Building a winning team (Transitivity assumption) – Focus on the NFL’ uses the NFL as an example to describe and explain how non-transitive relationships can be used in real life.

Brief Explanation

In short, transitivity occurs when the relationships between phenomena remain consistent. For example, if A>B and B>C, therefore A>C. However, under certain circumstances these relationships do not hold true. These relationships are referred to as non-transitive. Rock paper scissors game is a great example of non-transitive relationships between rock, paper and scissors. The attributes of rocks, paper and scissors are different. Scissors cuts paper, rock crushes scissors, and paper wraps around rock. Many things have different attributes that enable them to be superior under certain circumstances. For example, some sports teams perform well against particular teams even though their overall performance against all other teams is worse.

The exercise

The exercise in this post requires participants to compare the sizes of the triangles and rectangles in the gif. Each picture in the gif will show for just over a second. There are 15 pictures in the gif. Each picture contains two shapes. One shape is in the left area and the other in the right area. The two shapes are of different sizes. The participant is required to determine which shape is bigger for all 15 pictures. A participant is only allowed to enter once. Every entry will receive an upvote. There is no winner for this exercise as it is not a contest. Instead, I reward participation with upvotes.

The exercise is in the gif below. Each picture is labelled clearly in the bottom left-hand corner of the picture. Hope you have fun.

Spot the biggest shape exercise

Format to present answers

To participate in the exercise requires an upvote of this post and a response in the comment section using a simple format of picture number followed by either left or right. Below is an example.

Example ONLY

Number	Answer
1	Left
2	Right
3	Right
4	Left
5	Right
6	Right
7	Right
8	Right
9	Left
10	Right
11	Left
12	Right
13	Left
14	Left
15	Right

Objectives of this exercise

The exercise is to determine how difficult or easy it is for someone to determine which shape is bigger if the shapes are different, are different colours and different orientations. This simple exercise is aimed to simulate real life decision-making when multiple attributes can obfuscate which products are superior if differences are quite small. I am not sure if this exercise will prove anything but the results should be interesting nonetheless.

If you want to read any of my other posts, you can click on the links below. These links will lead you to posts containing my collection of works. These posts will be updated frequently.