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Tue 2 Feb, 2010 08:15 pm
Hi native English speakers, please tell me whether you've got the meaning of the word "draw" in the title with first glance /with your intuition.
More context is as follows. Obviously, the word "draw" refers to "draw your gun". But can you get it as your eyes touch the word in the title? I didn;t get it.
Context:
Niels Bohr once had a theory on why the good guy always won shoot-outs in Hollywood westerns. It was simple: the bad guy always drew first. That left the good guy to react unthinkingly " and therefore faster. When Bohr tested his hypothesis with toy pistols and colleagues who drew first, he always won.
Andrew Welchman of the University of Birmingham, UK, has now taken this a step further. Bohr may have won a Nobel prize for his work on quantum mechanics, but it turns out the answer to this puzzle is more complicated than he thought.
Welchman pitted pairs of people against each other. The task? Lift your hand off a button, push two other buttons, then return to the first. There was no start bell. "Eventually one decides it's time to move," Welchman says. "The other player will then try to move as fast as possible."
@oristarA,
I didn't what "draw" meant until I read "shoot-out".
Quote:Niels Bohr once had a theory on why the good guy always won shoot-outs in Hollywood westerns.
Niels Bohr was a pretty smart fellow, but apparently he missed the whole "fiction" thing. Good guys won because the author(s) decided for it to go that way.
@DrewDad,
Thank you.
And awaiting more guys to come here and give me the answer.
I got it immediately within the context of the full title.
It also gave me an indication that the story would not be some dry science item but something fun to read.
The intended meaning was clear to me immediately, especially with the exclamation mark (!) after the word.
I got it from the exclamation mark but then needed to read the full title to confirm. "shoot out" confirmed my immediate assesment.
How useful!
Thank you all.