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I in no way misundestood your reply. I was pointing out the inadaquacies of the question that was originally posed.
These type of simplistic questions remind me of a study group. they are usually young and have little understanding of the complexities that life offers.
My furore was in the addendum, not taking an answer based on the question posed and analysing it from that basis, leads to misunderstandings that form prejudices.
An example that I can give is a question that asks the person to think outside of the square.
Nine dots formed into a square, Q: Use five straight lines to connect every dot (forgive me if this is a bit awry as it was a long time ago). The answer focused on extending the lines beyond the boundries of the square. I used curved lines to create an answer as this was not disallowed in the question. My answer was wrong according to the instructor, I pointed out that the question did not disallow curved lines but asked for only five straight ones. The instructor could not think outside of the question and therefore outside of the square. The instuctor was therefore constrained by their own boundries set by the (teachers copy) question.
When boundries are set, they must be done in a complete way so as no misunderstanding of the question can come into play. The question should have read using five straight line ONLY, connect all the dots.
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