what's my IQ

[piranha]

hahahahahhahahahahahaha! 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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[pir-anha.livejournal.com]

a sock has 5 things very similar to a glove has 5 things, no? -- 5 bits of it stick out. a glove covers hand-with-fingers like a sock covers feet-with-toes, except the glove doesn't enclose entirely. i'm knitting a sock pretty much like i am knitting a glove, minus the heel. :)

i would have had a harder time with the clock.

[pir-anha.livejournal.com]

oh wait! now i see it. i'm thinking of a very specialized sock (the ones with toesies), while generic socks are nothing of the kind. *duh*.

you're right. it becomes totally non-obvious then, and 5 is the least logical answer. i wonder whether it's even correct.

[huashan.livejournal.com]

"car, glove, clock, sock," "4, 5, 12, ? "
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.

[pir-anha.livejournal.com]

The average car contains 4 passengers.

hahahahahaha! HOV lane designers everywhere have nightmares of this coming true.

[huashan.livejournal.com]

Well damn, they aren't the ones into whose hearts I'm attempting to inject unbearable fear. It's the SUV designers I'm after.

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.

[rahaeli.livejournal.com]

But a glove has five things -- the five fingers-of-the-glove covering the five fingers-on-the-thing-the-glove-is-covering. The sock doesn't, unless you get those footie socks (which I totally hate, but that's neither here nor there).

(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.)

[pir-anha.livejournal.com]

my "sudden insight" comment crossed with yours. :)
http://pleonastic.livejournal.com/191353.html?thread=854393#t854393

[cakmpls.livejournal.com]

I'm with you. It's a stupid question.

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.