If I threw 100 tennis balls at someone for them to catch then I randomly threw a brick would they try and catch it? – Secondary 11

Question: If I threw 100 tennis balls at someone for them to catch then I randomly threw a brick would they try and catch it?
- Keywords:
  brick,
  psychology,
  tennis
Asked by jpthesteamtrain to Pete on 21 Jun 2012.
- Pete Etchells answered on 21 Jun 2012:
  
  They might do! More likely they’d try and get out of the way – a brick is sufficiently different enough from a tennis ball that they’d notice it pretty quickly.

anon-24192 commented on 27 Jun 2012:

Probadbly as they would not think that a brick would be thrown.

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Question: If I threw 100 tennis balls at someone for them to catch then I randomly threw a brick would they try and catch it?