I'm too lazy to count but I guess it's 16

14

Maybe the starter is nerd-hunting??

And the Answer is: 16

95% of people get this wrong, Are Chess Players Different?

QED it does appear chess players defy the norm set by the likes of facebook.  On FB where I found this puzzle I was astonded by a failure rate of over 90% over more then 3,000 answers.  I see here at chess.com and as I figured our eyes are a bit more accustomed to tracking answers across squares!

 To all who answered thank you!!  To the first Responder , I find your logic entirely valid I too would qualify my answer you never can be to sure these days..

....................16.............................oooooHhhhhhhhhhhh ........aahhhhh

15

facepalm.. there has no reasearch been done on how many people get it right.

The "95% get this wrong sentence" is just a marketing trick to get you to click on it. Everyone wants to prove themselves that they are in the top 5% and is seduced to click on it. You probably recieved it from a page on facebook, but never click on such adds.

Dummy here only got 14.

if you counted...

<9 then you don't know what a square is

9-15 you are an average person who is not that great at chess

16 you either a average chess player or a non chess player who has a good perseption of the (board?)

17+ you're hallusinating or your drunk

I get 15... I can't see the 3x3 ??

It is most certainly a marketing trick but since it is on Facebook and there is no redirect to the site I can just review the answers.  I usually just for fun look at the puzzle, I forget which friend of mine puts up the better ones.  Usually however its something real easy and most people get it right like "name a fruit or vegatable that does not have the letter A in it"  When i read through this one however I could barely find 16's so i started counting..  Just for fun, I too want to find the trick but in this case the answer is clear.

Bottom left.

Ah yes, there you go.. 16

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this experiment is statistically unsound as chessers are biased towards recognising squares, apart from traditionally being smokers.

back to the drawing board i guess.

Thank you Grasshopper;

Q.E.D. quod erat demonstrandum, "which had to be demonstrated" thus is proved.  My initial preface was that chess players would be the inverse and score 95% on the correct side..

Facebook... Doesn't that explain it all?

To solve this puzzle I employed the following table:

Squares (per unit match)

width 4, count 1

width 3, count 1

width 2, count 5

width 1, count 9

Total Square count 16

I was not hallucinating or drunk - I counted 16 and then deliberately decided to count one of the small squares again to make 17. The question asked "How many squares can you count?". I managed 17 - so sue me.

Finally, someone else who understands!

These are more fun when there's a ridiculous amount of them and everybody in the whole class just sits there counting one by one. Square numbers, right? Side by side to get the total and then work it out. 1, 4, 9, 16 etc. Same goes for those bloody triangles. Shame that doesn't work here though. :( 

16.

I am reminded of a discussion between Einstein and Bohr .  Once the square is counted is it not removed from the equation?  and thus no longer available for record.