My Very Smart Daughter

I think Achel was about 4 or 5 years old when I noticed her 'smart' trick to select the right answer for a question.

I was watching her one day, she was answering questions in one of the page of her workbook that her mum bought somewhere. It was an objective question. She read the question properly, and the way she pick the answer was by the method of 'elimination'. She picked out the answers which was totally unrelated to the question. She picked three that are off and circle the remaining. Surprisingly she seems to be not bothered to check if the answer that she circled was the right answer or not for she was so sure that when the three wrong answers are eliminated, the correct answer must be the one left. Remember, ordinary people answer question in such way that they seek the 'correct' answer from all the possible answers.

This technique is used a lot here in UK, by a group of people that called themselves The Eggheads. This group are the quizmasters who have already won millions in a big time quiz competitions. All they do was to eliminate the answers that are off, and figure out the correct answer from the remaining options.

Not may people have the skill to do that. But the skill being mastered by a little kid, is certainly baffles me.