We all make underlying assumptions in everyday life. Our assumptions are often based on our beliefs, instead of on proven facts. See if you can find the underlying assumptions in the paragraph below.
Read this paragraph and answer the question below.
A father and son are in a terrible car accident. The father is killed and the son, who is very badly injured, is rushed into emergency surgery. The surgeon walks into the operating room, looks at the boy's face and says, “I can't operate on this boy; he's my son.”
We know that the boy's father was killed. So who is the surgeon?
The surgeon is his mother! This puzzle confuses many people because of two common underlying assumptions about surgeons.
Which underlying assumptions may confuse us when we read the above paragraph? Choose 2 correct answers.
