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What was the first answer that popped in your mind?
Water 30%  30%  [ 50 ]
Water 48%  48%  [ 80 ]
Milk 7%  7%  [ 11 ]
Milk 8%  8%  [ 14 ]
Other (Explain) 2%  2%  [ 4 ]
Other (Explain) 4%  4%  [ 7 ]
Total votes : 166

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24 Jul 2011, 6:35 am

The first thing that comes to mind is water.


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24 Jul 2011, 7:30 am

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I'd actually be curious to see what the first thing that pops into peoples' heads is when they simply see the one word


Cow.



I actually noticed that I come across the word and identify what I consider a cow to be. I assume the people who answer milk by default when they read the "what do cows drink?" question are people who naturally did word association when they read the word "cow" and are already thinking about milk before getting to the end of the question... Word association overriding word logic.



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Did you think of the animal or did you instead think of cheese? Did you think of both?


I thought of the animal, cheese wasn't something that ever popped into my head. But there is another side to this too, what about the word:


Milk


Do you think of a cow? I just think of mammals in general so to me milk is associated with humans, goats, cows, rabbits, etc, which could be why I don't make the impulsive leap to milk when I see the read/hear the word cow.

I find it interesting that this poll has quite opposite results as compared to what this neurologist said on the radio.


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24 Jul 2011, 7:51 am

I actually didn't know the answer to this, not really up on the eating/drinking habits of farm animals :oops: Would have guessed baby cows drink their mothers milk so surely that makes neither answer incorrect.



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24 Jul 2011, 8:40 am

OddFiction wrote:
I'd actually be curious to see what the first thing that pops into peoples' heads is when they simply see the one word


Cow.



I actually noticed that I come across the word and identify what I consider a cow to be. I assume the people who answer milk by default when they read the "what do cows drink?" question are people who naturally did word association when they read the word "cow" and are already thinking about milk before getting to the end of the question... Word association overriding word logic.



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Did you think of the animal or did you instead think of cheese? Did you think of both?

Actually I thought cat.


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24 Jul 2011, 8:58 am

Water was the first answer that came to mind. But then again, I live in an area that used to be a huge dairy producer. While I am aware that calves drink mothers' milk, the question concerned adult cows. Never gave it a thought until I saw others' replies. Then beer, since that's what farmers give their Kobe beef cattle in Japan. It adds to the marbling of the meat. Btw, the cattle also get massages. They're quite spoiled before they're turned into expensive steaks & burgers, which is why the price is higher for Kobe beef.


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24 Jul 2011, 9:06 am

My first thought was water, but my second thought was nothing and that cows get water from all the grass they eat. I never thought milk.



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24 Jul 2011, 9:14 am

i see cows as livestock just like horses. we had both on our farm when i was a child, and i saw them drinking from the dam thousands of times.

i can not imagine why someone would say "milk".
would they answer "eggs" to the question "what do chickens eat ?" ?



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24 Jul 2011, 9:35 am

b9 wrote:
i see cows as livestock just like horses. we had both on our farm when i was a child, and i saw them drinking from the dam thousands of times.

i can not imagine why someone would say "milk".
would they answer "eggs" to the question "what do chickens eat ?" ?


B9, exactly! A lot of people know little about the animals other than their milk is purchased in cartons, & packages of their meat are found at the store for sale. I was once with a group of teenagers & we all came upon a cow standing on the other side of a fence by the roadside. I went over, & started talking to her, & scratched behind her ears. A couple of other kids started to do the same thing, but then yanked their hands back thinking the cow would bite them. I explained that cows have no upper front teeth, but that she might give them a lick with her big tongue.


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24 Jul 2011, 10:02 am

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PS: If anyone knows the radio program I am talking about speak up! It was on my local NPR station on 14-July around 12:30 in the afternoon.


Here is the link to the interview: http://www.npr.org/2011/07/14/137552517 ... -our-lives



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24 Jul 2011, 10:05 am

Well they can drink milk when they're young and then water.



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24 Jul 2011, 10:45 am

I didn't try to answer the question spontaneously.

I just impulsively thought of a calf that's drinking milk.

It went something like that:

mental image of a calf drinking milk -> mental images of straw, dung forks, green rubber boots, a metal milk can

aaaaand then the second was other and I registered that "What do cows drink?" is a question and that questions ask for an answer.

So then I thought of water, naturally, because in my mind, there's a cow on a field drinking water from a dark, rectangular trough.

That's pretty much how it goes in conversations too. I don't necessarily associate a question with the need to provide an answer until my thinking kicks in and I remember to. I get distracted or just ignore the question because I'm not automatically alerted by my brain/social sense/whatever to the fact that it would be polite and is socially expected to answer.


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24 Jul 2011, 10:52 am

I thought water. I'll admit milk popped into my head, though. :lol:


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24 Jul 2011, 11:33 am

tomboy4good wrote:
b9 wrote:
i see cows as livestock just like horses. we had both on our farm when i was a child, and i saw them drinking from the dam thousands of times.

i can not imagine why someone would say "milk".
would they answer "eggs" to the question "what do chickens eat ?" ?


B9, exactly! A lot of people know little about the animals other than their milk is purchased in cartons, & packages of their meat are found at the store for sale. I was once with a group of teenagers & we all came upon a cow standing on the other side of a fence by the roadside. I went over, & started talking to her, & scratched behind her ears. A couple of other kids started to do the same thing, but then yanked their hands back thinking the cow would bite them. I explained that cows have no upper front teeth, but that she might give them a lick with her big tongue.


i do not know how what you said is associated with what i said, but i completely agree with you if you are saying that animals are individuals that are lovable.



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24 Jul 2011, 11:41 am

b9 wrote:
tomboy4good wrote:
b9 wrote:
i see cows as livestock just like horses. we had both on our farm when i was a child, and i saw them drinking from the dam thousands of times.

i can not imagine why someone would say "milk".
would they answer "eggs" to the question "what do chickens eat ?" ?


B9, exactly! A lot of people know little about the animals other than their milk is purchased in cartons, & packages of their meat are found at the store for sale. I was once with a group of teenagers & we all came upon a cow standing on the other side of a fence by the roadside. I went over, & started talking to her, & scratched behind her ears. A couple of other kids started to do the same thing, but then yanked their hands back thinking the cow would bite them. I explained that cows have no upper front teeth, but that she might give them a lick with her big tongue.


i do not know how what you said is associated with what i said, but i completely agree with you if you are saying that animals are individuals that are lovable.


Just the odd association that popped into my mind of the day when I was with these other (urbanite) teenagers who had never experienced being around a living cow. They knew nothing about them other than milk & meat came in containers from a store, like eggs. Cows do provide milk & meat, but they are also living entities. And yes, quite friendly & lovable. My mind works in mysterious ways. :-) Even I am perplexed how it works.


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24 Jul 2011, 11:57 am

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