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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[rahaeli.livejournal.com]

But a sock doesn't have five things! It covers a thing with five things! A sock has no things, or possibly one thing. And I know it's overanalysis for a standardized test, but trust me, it's the first thing I think of -- I have to significantly dumb my thought process down to even come close.

(The evil standardized tests are the ones written by people who know that people try to overcomplicate, and put those answers on the test.)

[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.