Great British Intelligence test

[duhawkz]

I stumbled across this earlier, its an interesting way to pass half an hour

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/5tFHwWMgg9VbrHT9kvGlFqd/the-great-british-intelligence-test

[Howling Terror]

Can't find link.
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[Howling Terror]

As I'd expected.

Crap at planning.
Spatial intelligence not much better.
Can remember numbers.
Mental rotation piece of piss.
Verbal comprehension good.
Attention...meh.
Emotional...good.

The spider diagram was skewed to the left
Not a retard...not a genius.

Like all my school reports - Could do better...messes about in class too much.
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[chickenstrip]

Does it say anything about laziness? I can't be bothered to look at it.
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[Howling Terror]

I got a little adrenaline buzz.






































Nothing to do with the test...Danger-wank.
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[stinkwheel]

As is often the case, they confuse intelligence with memory and education.

You can be very intelligent and illiterate. You would fail this test.
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[Shaft]

[MCN]

[Shaft]

[stinkwheel]

The other thing is we place far too much emphasis on speed of response. Not just here but in many things.

I remember hearing an interview with a professor of pure mathematics on the radio. She was advocating massively increasing the time allowed for maths exams. Her argument was that speed of calculation is utterly irrelevant, coming up with a correct and reasoned solution to the problem is the only outcome that matters.

Putting an onerous time constraint on an exam doesn't tell you how good the person is at the thing you are examining. I've done a lot of exams in my time and the vast majority of them were rushed, there wasn't enough time to get through it all to the best of my ability.

There is a good argument for allowing enough time in any test/exam for the average student to comfortably finish all the questions. I'd suggest a 50 percentile rule, the test should be long enough so 50% of the students have finished as much as they can finish, checked their paper and handed it in.

If you want to see how someone responds to pressure, you can test that too but a maths/final degree exam is not the place to do it.

I mention speed because in that test, I found the number one difficult, the numbers came past too quickly for me to take them in, I struggle with maths at the best of times and numbers just don't sit up and dance for me.

Conversely, I block-read text so I got top 5% in the word definitions one. Presumably more because I answered quickly than because of my accuracy.

The faces was interesting. I scored poorly in that but I noticed nearly all the ones I got wrong were black. There is a very different facial soft tissue and bone structure in this ethnic group and I simply do not see black people where I live (NW England and NE Scotland before then). I reckon I see a black face in the street maybe once or twice a week. I have a direct interaction with a black person maybe once a month, if that (and by direct interaction I mean even like being served in a shop or holding a door open for someone). I met my first black person at the age of five. I see them so infrequently that my brain doesn't recognise their features as a "face".
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“Rule one: Always stick around for one more drink. That's when things happen. That's when you find out everything you want to know.”
I did the 2010 Round Britain Rally on my 350 Bullet. 89 landmarks, 3 months, 9,500 miles.

[MCN]

[Hetzer]

The original Stanford-Binet IQ test (143 in my case) was little more than a way to measure a brain's processing speed and had fuckall to do with 'intelligence'. I was thick as two short planks when I was made to do it (under duress/quiet protest in Borstal). The last time I did one (some online version) I scored 138 yet considered myself x100 more 'intelligent', due to gained knowledge and experience with the ability to analyse and understand the fuck out of just about anything (including knowing when I can't due to lack of data).

Then you die and who gives a shit.
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[Howling Terror]

Am I the only one stupid enough to do the test?
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[MarJay]

I did alright... Top 5% in spatial rotation

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[Howling Terror]

Overall you did better on the test than me, but you wouldn't tell if I was happy about that.
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[A100man]

[MarJay]

I feel like people saying that it makes little difference in the real world are probably deluding themselves at least a *little* bit? *cue flaming* It is a measurement, and by it's very nature it measures *something*. How closely that something is related to what you might define as 'success' in life is obviously debatable, but to say there is absolutely no link is probably missing the point somewhat. Granted, some people are lazy and some people work hard, some people find a niche that they are good at despite not doing well in IQ tests. Some people get a high paid job despite hardly being able to spell their own name, and some people build businesses up starting with their bare hands and become millionaires (although I would venture some level of IQ is probably required to do well at that). I have a very intelligent, talented and witty friend who is happy earning not a very big salary because he enjoys what he does. It frustrates him that he's not more financially successful, but ultimately he accepts that trade off. (He does have a loving wife and a pretty nice house, so it does clearly depend on how you define 'success'). Even so, there is probably a graph which shows a correlation between salary or earnings and IQ (again, if that's how you define 'success' of course).

The thing certainly with MENSA tests for example is that they are supposed to be culturally unbiassed. Obviously they rely on you generally being literate, but they usually test you in two phases, one of which is mainly numbers based and one of which is language based and then the higher of the two scores is taken.

But y'know, at the end of the day it's a number and that number helps neither your employability nor ability to attract a mate etc. Its really just for your own measurement but on that basis, it's not something a given person can just disregard as it does have some meaning. It's the relevancy of that meaning that is the issue, not the meaning itself.
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[MarJay]

I just had a look again, and it turns out the brightness on my monitor is so low that I couldn't see the grid in the 'spatial working memory' test, which is why I found it so hard...
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[AldridgePrior]

I'd say IQ has everything to do with the real world. It's why some races have advanced and others haven't. Sounds harsh and far from politically correct but it's the truth.

[stinkwheel]

[MarJay]

[MCN]

[chickenstrip]

[kgm]

Apparently I understand lots of words but not how they work in conversation 😂 I blame that I'm the Mrs being a distraction and running out of time on that one🤦‍♂️

I was shit at the Tetris like test.

Top tier for some stuff, gash at others!

[FretGrinder]

https://i.ibb.co/b7ttc1X/IMG-20200102-183434.jpg

Just goes to show we're all a bit different.

The mental rotation and attention exercises were good fun
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