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(if you have had to answer this question)
is the glass half full or half empty?


when my counselor asked me this i had started this explanation that if
you pour the water in its half full if you drank out of it its half empty.

how did you answer?

Thats about how I'd answer it. Except I'd probably go into some tirade about how the half full and half empty make me think that the world is black and white, when really there is so much grey.

And I have a hard time seeing grey!

I'd tell him its half. Just half.

Well, your counselor is assessing whether you look at things in a positive light- the glass is half full- or in a negative light - it is half empty. Things are never that simple, and I like your answer that it is all relative to what happened before the glass got to its current situation and just how thirsty you happen to be.

That question has never made much sense to me. The glass is both half full and half empty.

I think its to the middle .

the first thing I thought of the first time i heard that was...

"half a glass of water"

nothing else. (Teacher asking class question, grade 6) When somebody else said a glass half filled with water, a glass half empty etc... the teacher asked everyone else and I was the only one who just saw it how it was.

it didn't occur to me that it was "half empty" or "half full", just half

LOL cool .

Half full, then I'd just fill it up again or drink the rest. I like certainty.

Q: Is the glass half full or half empty?

A: Both.

I said half empty and I generally look at the negatives and focus on worse case scenario in any situation.
I guess this psychological "test" kind of has a point...but i don't think you can rate whether someone is positive or negative based entirely on what their answer to the question is.

Someone might say "half empty" because they might first look at the empty space in the cup, where as someone else might say "half full" because they might first look at the liquid in the cup.

I have two responses depending on the question

My favorite response is that the glass is exactly half the size it needs to be

If the question asks, on the other hand, how I see "half a glass of water", I complain that it's ambiguous. Is it an amount of water equal to one half of some volume called "a glass", or is it "half a glass" (i.e., a glass cut in two pieces) filled with water, or is it "a glass made out of water cut in two pieces"

I know this is being pedantic, but grant me some aspie literalness, please! People just don't know how to talk properly

The glass is half baked because that's a stupid question to begin with.

^

The correct answer is:
"With water, it's half empty. With Coca-Cola, it's half full - please top it off".

"The glass is completely full, half of liquid, half of vapor. If you only want to decide based on the liquid I would say it would depend on whether you wanted the water in or out. But in reality, the glass is merely twice as large as it needs to be."