53 bicycles: A lateral thinking puzzle

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1521

Is the person testing hardware?
Is the person testing software?
Is the person testing computer games?

1522

Does the service involve infants or children?

1523

No.

  1. No.
  2. No.
  3. No.
1524

So the performer of the service is testing how a novice would perform with some information technology by being unskilled him/herself.
Is it now the specific information technology we have to guess?

1525

Is the person testing voice recognition technology?

So the service is related to information technology, but is not software or hardware?

1526

Nm

1527

Does the testing involve damaging something?

1528

Yes, and some specific information about the job would be nice.

  1. No.

  2. Yes, I think so.

No.

1529

Does the testing involve some form of transportation?

1530

No.

1531

Is this a predictive technology?

1532

No.

1533

Does the testing involve a website?
Does the testing involve an app?
Does the testing involve the Internet of Things (Internet connected appliances like alarm systems or juicers)?
Does the testing involve music?
Does the testing involve education?

1534

Is the purpose of the test to assess a first time experience?

1535

Website - YES

No to the rest.

YES

I’ll call this solved. It was never my favorite one.

The job is a guy’s Mom who tests websites for user experience. She comes in with her limited tech. knowledge and reports back how it was as a novice using it.

If she gets too good at using websites, she becomes less useful in her job.

I googled if websites are considered “software” and came back with the answer “no”. This is why I said “no” to the software question.

1536

I was trying to figure out what would be tech and not software or hardware, which is why I asked about websites or apps, so that answer did ultimately lead me in the right direction.

I’d like to propose a new puzzle:

A woman grew up in an Irish Catholic family. Both sides of her family are proud of their Irish heritage. But when she has her DNA tested at Ancestry.com, the results show that she is 50% Jewish. Why?

1537

Uh, are they Irish-Jews who had relatives the converted to Catholic?

I know that is just spitting out the question with no development, but I think Jewish-Irish people do exist, so one could have ancestry that way without knowing.

1538

No.

1539

Is there any kind of shared dna-quirks between Jewish and Irish-Catholic that fool the machine testing?

1540

No.