Question: How many cows are there in New Zealand?

Alternative Question Phrasing:

How many chickens are there in Australia?
How many cows are there in the United States?

Follow-up questions:

How did you come to that conclusion?
Why do you think so?

Question Details:

Skills:

Abilities:

Cognitive – Inductive Reasoning,Cognitive – Mathematical Reasoning,Cognitive – Number Facility (Math Solving Speed),Cognitive – Speed of Closure (Thinking Speed)

Work Activity (Task):

Information Input – Estimating Characteristics of Objects, Events, or Information,Mental Processes – Processing Information

Work Style (Person-Job Fit):

Analytical Thinking

Question Frequency

Question Difficulty

What to look for in an answer:

You are looking to understand the interviewee’s thought process around deriving an answer rather than the correct answer itself. You are also looking to judge their maths abilities and thinking speed.

Red Flags to Watch For:

An interviewee who just immediately tries to guess at an answer rather than working through it logically could be a red flag.

Sample Answer:

There are approximately close to 4 million cows in New Zealand.

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