Expanding Minds / Increasing Performance

This week we are posting  5 "Insight Problems" one for each day of the work week.

Wednesday February 23, 2011, Third Day

Todays problem is:

An unemployed woman did not have her driver’s license with her. She failed to stop at a railroad crossing, then ignored a one-way traffic sign and traveled three blocks in the wrong direction down the one-way street. All this was observed by a policeman, who was on duty, yet he made no effort to arrest the woman. Why?

(Baker-Sennett & Ceci, 1996; Jacobs & Dominowski, 1981; Schooler & Melcher, 1995).