what's my IQ
Aug. 14th, 2006 12:14![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
piranhahahahahahhahahahahahaha! yeah, right. the "official IQ test" says so!
also, your bad image matte looks horrible on my background, people.
[edit: requires account creation in order to see results. stupid.]
there was one question i liked (addendum -- i liked it because it got me to thinking in contorted ways, while none of the other questions were any fun at all):
determine the missing number: "car, glove, clock, sock," "4, 5, 12, ? "
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on 2006-08-14 20:00 (UTC)car, glove, clock, sock
4 tires, 5 fingers, 12 hours, 5 toes
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on 2006-08-14 20:07 (UTC)I'm not good at this particular class of problem.
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on 2006-08-14 20:41 (UTC)Tests like that one are entertaining...
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on 2006-08-14 20:08 (UTC)So I take a look at "car, glove, clock, sock," "4, 5, 12, ? " and immediately think: a car's got four wheels, a glove's got five fingers, a clock has 12 numbers. I can see what they're aiming at -- they want to know how many of a certain thing a sock has. Question is, what's that thing. "car" and "glove" both fit into "appendages", clock semi-sorta does -- the numbers on a clock aren't exactly appendages, but whatever -- so that leads me to 0, because a sock doesn't have any appendages; it's one continuous surface. "glove" and "clock" both fit into "parts divided into", "car" semi-sorta does -- the tires on a car aren't the only parts, but whatever -- so that leads me to 1, because a sock has one part, for the toes to go into.
The 5 is the biggest stretch for me, because in order to get there, I'd need the pattern to be composed of "things covering up or enclosing a thing which has this number associated with it", because a sock doesn't have five toes; it encloses five toes. And "clock" and "car" don't fit that. I think the test is just going for a much more generic "numbers associated with this item", but like I said, my brain doesn't work the way standardized tests work.
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on 2006-08-14 20:29 (UTC)"they want to know how many of a certain thing a sock has" is the key thought. since the tests almost never go into anything esoteric, it's usually safe to just go with the most generic level of "things". i retrained myself to do that, but i can only say that i am glad i no longer have to take standardized tests.
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on 2006-08-14 20:34 (UTC)(The evil standardized tests are the ones written by people who know that people try to overcomplicate, and put those answers on the test.)
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on 2006-08-14 20:46 (UTC)i would have had a harder time with the clock.
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on 2006-08-14 20:49 (UTC)you're right. it becomes totally non-obvious then, and 5 is the least logical answer. i wonder whether it's even correct.
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on 2006-08-16 20:00 (UTC)The average car contains 4 passengers.
The average glove contains 5 fingers.
The average clock contains 12 numbers.
The average sock contains 5 toes.
And the reason the sock question isn't "the average sock contains one foot" is because we're given the answer that they want the average glove to contain 5 fingers.
I actually had to train myself to think this way to get through school doing standardized tests. I had a tremendously painful period in my life where unfortunately I constantly responded "Not necessarily..." to almost every statement by anyone. Luckily I not only grew out of it relatively quickly, I learned to think of the alternatives and pick the one that was most likely the one normal people were looking for.
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on 2006-08-16 22:10 (UTC)hahahahahaha! HOV lane designers everywhere have nightmares of this coming true.
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on 2006-08-16 23:12 (UTC)I meant "is built to contain" but I've been thinking about that, and with the ridiculous numbers of SUVs on the road it may not be true.
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on 2006-08-14 20:49 (UTC)(My brain considers "glove" and "sock" separately from "hand" and "foot" -- you might be able to see where I'm coming from if you think of it lying flat on a table, not *on* something.)
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on 2006-08-14 21:00 (UTC)http://pleonastic.livejournal.com/191353.html?thread=854393#t854393
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on 2006-08-14 21:02 (UTC)Besides what you've pointed out: A clock doesn't necessarily have 12 numbers. A digital clock has either 10 (0-9) or a Whole Bunch (12:00-11.59, and more if it counts seconds), depending on how you look at it. An analog clock might have 4 (12, 3, 6, 9) or none--I've seen both--and possibly some other combination.
Stupid question.
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on 2006-08-15 19:08 (UTC)I like the question anyway b/c, as pleo said, it gets me thinking in twisting ways.
Seebling!
on 2006-08-14 20:18 (UTC)no subject
on 2006-08-14 21:07 (UTC)Man, I hate self-rolled "Official" IQ tests with the heat of ... something really hot. I remember one that had a pictures of a screwdriver, a pair of scissors, a hammer, and a hand saw, and asked which one didn't belong. I chose scissors, because in the others the handle is non-metallic but the "working end" is metal. Their answer is that "hammer" is the only word that doesn't begin with the letter "s". Ah, the perils of being two standard deviations smarter than the person who wrote the fricken' test.
I hope you got caught up in the meme a few months ago where there was the IQ test except that the results inverted your score if you viewed your LJ from an IP address other than the one from which you took the test. The person who ran that won the internet.
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on 2006-08-14 21:20 (UTC)nope, didn't see the one you're referring to (don't do a lot of memes), but it sounds like delicious fun.
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on 2006-08-14 21:48 (UTC)For all that that's worth. ;D
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on 2006-08-14 21:54 (UTC)For the "car, glove, clock, sock," "4, 5, 12, ? " question I found two perfectly legit answers, both of which were on the list. The first quoted section contains 4 words, 5 vowels and 12 consonants. It also contains 17 letters overall and 7 punctuation (commas and blanks), both of which are on the list.
For "truculent, fierce, tumultuous,
For the "car, glove, clock, sock," "4, 5, 12, ? " question I found two perfectly legit answers, both of which were on the list. The first quoted section contains 4 words, 5 vowels and 12 consonants. It also contains 17 letters overall and 7 punctuation (commas and blanks), both of which are on the list.
For "truculent, fierce, tumultuous, <don't recall>, placid". You could make an argument for placid as the only non-aggressive term. Or you could make an argument for tumultuous as the only one which is not a term normally applied to people.
I also hate tests that don't let you see the answers afterward so you can figure out where you went wrong.
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on 2006-08-15 07:26 (UTC)However, I managed to convince the science teacher that he'd got the wrong answer, and I had the right answer, for both those questions. (I don't think anyone who had his answer was penalised.)
So yes, I totally agree there are people who care more about matching the "official answers", but they're not me :-).
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on 2006-08-16 22:11 (UTC)i create fake accounts with abandon. they want to make me jump through silly hoops? here, have some bogus data.
hmmm...
on 2006-10-11 09:29 (UTC)anonymous
on 2007-03-24 21:14 (UTC)its not a good test for general iq
especially if your smart... (myspace)
i got 127 but im 14
!& its !& you your heads
on 2007-06-29 21:04 (UTC)