Totally agree. And thus, 80% of people got the question right. It was the researchers who got the question wrong. Perhaps there should be an article about the “tricky superiority” fallacy or the “smug researcher” fallacy.
When I was a kid (like 4 or something) I drew some lines on a page in a pattern and then I drew over the lines with a different pattern and then I took it to my dad and said “tell me what the pattern is.” He of course told me the visible, topmost pattern, and I told him he was wrong. That’s what the researchers are doing here. They intentionally used language to obfuscate the answer, and in the process, ended up changing the question so much that they themselves were wrong.
