{"id":276,"date":"2016-11-28T07:10:42","date_gmt":"2016-11-28T12:10:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/?p=276"},"modified":"2019-01-29T22:28:02","modified_gmt":"2019-01-30T03:28:02","slug":"the-bathtub-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/?p=276","title":{"rendered":"The Bathtub Test"},"content":{"rendered":"

(Here’s the test – an absolute favourite of By George’s.\u00a0<\/em>Place yourself as the visitor and answer the question posed in this scenario.)<\/em><\/p>\n

\"\"During a visit to a mental asylum, a visitor asked the Director what the criteria was which defined whether or not a patient should be institutionalized.<\/p>\n

“Well,” said the Director, “we fill up a bathtub, then we offer a teaspoon, a teacup and a bucket to the patient.”<\/p>\n

“We then ask him or her to empty the bathtub.”<\/p>\n

The visitor answers, “Yes, well, a normal person would use the bucket because it’s bigger than the teaspoon or the teacup\u2026”<\/p>\n

Answer: “The bucket.”<\/p>\n

Correct?!\u00a0 (What do you think?)<\/em><\/p>\n

*** *** ***<\/p>\n

“Well, no,” said the Director.<\/p>\n

“A normal person would pull the plug.”<\/p>\n

.<\/p>\n

Chris George, providing reliable PR & GR counsel and effective advocacy. Need a go-to writer and experienced communicator? 613-983-0801 @<\/em> CG&A COMMUNICATIONS<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(Here’s the test – an absolute favourite of By George’s.\u00a0Place yourself as the visitor and answer the question posed in this scenario.) During a visit to a mental asylum, a visitor asked the Director what the criteria was which defined whether or not a patient should be institutionalized. “Well,” said the Director, “we fill up…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[46],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=276"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10270,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276\/revisions\/10270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}