# Help with a possible math discrepancy?

**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-with-a-possible-math-discrepancy/920855
**Category:** Factual Questions
**Created:** [September 17, 2020, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-with-a-possible-math-discrepancy/920855 "2020-09-17T17:53:16Z")
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### Author: ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)
#### Post date: [September 17, 2020, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-with-a-possible-math-discrepancy/920855/11 "2020-09-17T20:55:24Z")

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> [@Chronos](#):
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> …  
> instead of concluding that the person who wrote the problem is stupid.

See also this current thread

> [@Next number in this sequence](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/next-number-in-this-sequence/920832):
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> I found this video on Youtube, where Harvard students are asked five questions of varying difficulty. At 2m55s they ask the question: which number logically follows this series? 4, 6, 9, 6, 14, 6, … ? The answer they give is Can anyone explain the logic here? In questions like this, somebody always points out that any sequence of numbers can be justified, so any number would fit. That aside, what is the justification that they are most likely to be thinking of? [[Giving Harvard S…](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cSSFRim8OK8)

and my post #7.

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