International Women's Day- Can You Solve the Riddle? (Mindspace)

Is gender equality in the workplace still an issue? We ran an experiment with 22 people, all trying to solve the same riddle, and recorded their surprised responses. Watch the video to find out the answer! #IWD2023 #EmbraceEquity

Creative Consultancy - Jonathan Kahn

[howdykid]

The question is loaded. "How is this possible ?" As if there is a mystery. Subconsciously Implying the other person on the phone is kinda his father too

[hashir]

I have heard a different version of this riddle. 'Once a father and his son were travelling in a car. The car gets in an accident. The father dies on the spot and the son is grievously injured. He is taken to the hospital and he needs an operation. The doctor sees him and refuses to work saying, "He is my son". How is this possible?' And I failed to solve it.

[evelynvandhana]

Omg I am so glad i guessed it right. This was the first answer that came to my mind when I paused the video to think

[martinarusso]

The video makes a great point and raises awareness on an issue that still needs to be talked about and worked on; however, I believe the starting point we were given has influenced and anchored our thought process. "A man is the car with his son > he receives a call from the CEO who calls him "son" > how is this *even possible*? We automatically, maybe subconsciously associate the person on the other side of the phone with a man.

[daveytheg]

I initially guessed that he had two fathers. Arguably a more inclusive answer(?)

[deborahyoung]

Spot on! implicit bias! The riddle did not use misleading words, isms are social constructed bias that we learn to conform to. What a gentle way of sparking awareness. Thank you

[mysenfandei]

It's a shame that they only show the candidates who didn't solve the riddle within seconds. My very first thought was "easy, he has two dads", then I realized it could also be his mom. Took me about 10 seconds to come up with what I think of as two equally valid answers.

[himanshitomar]

Mind blowing.... It really helped me understand about what is breaking the bias means....

[saeedasabahrashid]

This was insanely simple. Who were these people ?

[clasencoach]

Actually, the (proposed?) solution can be seen as sexist. The CEO might very well be a man. The son can have two fathers.

[paulasanders]

I remember when I tried to solve this riddle, I seriously failed

[stifaniherpich]

If the riddle was narrated by a female voice, it would have an impact in the responses... the test is a biased already because it gives hints that lead the participants to the conclusions that the research expects...

[benjaminf.]

Tbh, if the narrator's voice was female, more people would've gotten it. He sounds like a father and reads the "Good luck son, you've got this" in a particularly fatherly tone.
Not saying we don't need more women CEOs though, but the setup had an influence imo

[marvinwang]

Has anybody been called by your mom as (and only) 'son'...？

[AsmitaBose]

The question is a little misleading. But I got it before they answered. If thinking logically, it's not a hard task.

[cocosilkworm]

So apparently female CEOs start to speak more like men when they get to the top. "Good luck, my darling boy" is what I would have said to my son. "Good luck, son" is more likely to be to used by a man addressing his son or a younger man, isn't it?

[enviisoup]

This is the first time I stooped to the level of trying to talk to these people through my computer going "it's the mother" sigh it did not work, they did not hear me! :)

[CrisCastr]

Really??? That was literally the first thing that came to my mind.

[ВикторияСафиярова]

What a riddle! The realisation is eyebrowraising.

[Napoleon]

No, I don't think it's a sexist bias.

In my opinion, this is what the issue is: in the first part of the video when the audio recording narrates the riddle, the sentence spoken by the CEO of the company is in a male voice ('good luck son you got this'). So, naturally, the person who is hearing it forms a subconscious connection.