42

“People live in a world of ambiguity where the same stimulus can evoke different responses in a variety of contexts. A stimulus such as the number 42 might be responded to as even, lower than 50, the product of 6 and 7, a double-digit number, or possibly the answer to life, the universe, and everything (Adams, 1979).”

The first two sentences of the “Selecting a response in task switching: Testing a model of compound cue retrieval” paper by Schneider & Logan, 2009.

(via Jana)