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Parazitull
it says ARROw down > cARRot See the resemblance?
bromagosa
Good point!

It also says vegetable, which starts the same way cabbage ends. That may account for so many people thinking cabbage.

Skibb
People might be lying and also 3 people is not "many" ;)
gearoidoc
Weird.

When asked for a vegetable I immediately was thinking Cabbage but for some reason Carrot popped into my head.

Yeah.

powatom
When asked for a vegetable I immediately though of a banana, then my brain said 'VEGETABLE, stupid', and I thought of a cabbage instead.
kennywinker
+1 Cabbage. That's too much cabbage to be a coincidence, I'd say.
bromagosa
I thought Cabbage too! But I'm not a native speaker, which may have an influence.
_b8r0
That's weird, I was still thinking 6.
olive_
Same for me. But after that I said tomato unconsciously.
motyard
I think it works best for native English speakers very well. I was in 2% as I am not native English speaker. Interested to know how these relation works? Do you guys know any other such psychological tricks? Please share.
Skibb
Why do you think this is related to language? We don't think in words, we think in images.

Now if we were to presuppose that cultural priming has something to do with this, we might be closer to the truth (i.e. people in Western world have carrot as an archetype of vegetables, while people in e.g. Philippines might see cabbage as the representative of veggies).