professionalhenchman

For those as don't know, the shiny ball test is based on a perceived need to establish new evolutionary hurdles, given the number of old ones which Western society has eliminated. Think of it as the pre-approval process for a chance to contribute to the human gene pool. The idea is simple: a group of children are lined up on the verge of a busy freeway. They are shown the Shiny Ball. The Shiny Ball is bright, alluring, appealing in the most basic "must possess it" fashion. Said Shiny Ball is rolled into traffic. The children that follow it into traffic clearly weren't evolutionarily fit to reproduce. Every few years, a variant of the Shiny Ball Test is repeated. Different lure, different risk, same idea.
So what's your solution?

Mine would be to show up with some sort of bizzare gadget designed to reach over traffic and grab the ball for me. That or sit on the sidelines and photograph the mayhem that results from everyone else going after the ball.