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FretGrinder
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PostPosted: 19:46 - 02 Jan 2020    Post subject: Reply with quote
stinkwheel wrote:
As is often the case, they confuse intelligence with memory and education.

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


This is what I got annoyed with at school.

I was fine with coursework, but terrible at exams, because it was all really a test of memory. Trying to remember stuff for one exam and then having to try and remember stuff for the next exam a few hours later was a nightmare, especially after weeks of revising multiple subjects every night.
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PostPosted: 19:51 - 02 Jan 2020    Post subject: Reply with quote
Short term memory has a massive effect on IQ tests, and is important for calculation and so on. Long term memory? Not so much.

As a counterpoint to what FretGrinder said, I hated coursework but was naturally pretty decent at exams. Not being good at coursework was more down to my laziness than anything though.
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PostPosted: 20:09 - 02 Jan 2020    Post subject: Reply with quote
FretGrinder wrote:


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

The mental rotation and attention exercises were good fun


Interestingly you have the same discrepancy between verbal reasoning and verbal comprehension as I did 🤷‍♂️
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PostPosted: 00:06 - 03 Jan 2020    Post subject: Reply with quote
I’m going for “stable genius”.
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PostPosted: 00:08 - 03 Jan 2020    Post subject: Reply with quote
weasley wrote:
I’m going for “stable genius”.


Pffft, show off Folded arms Laughing
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PostPosted: 01:06 - 03 Jan 2020    Post subject: Reply with quote
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I sucked at remembering the numbers and I didn't do great at verbal reasoning, which is odd because in other tests I scored highly in verbal reasoning
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PostPosted: 01:13 - 03 Jan 2020    Post subject: Reply with quote
has anyone had more then one go at the test, were your results broadly similar?
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PostPosted: 11:27 - 03 Jan 2020    Post subject: Reply with quote
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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.


I think you'll find that most non-creative financial success is a product of sociopathy vs nice-but-dim masses. You don't have to be particularly intelligent, just a cunt (broadly speaking).
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PostPosted: 11:38 - 03 Jan 2020    Post subject: Reply with quote
Hetzer wrote:


I think you'll find that most non-creative financial success is a product of sociopathy vs nice-but-dim masses. You don't have to be particularly intelligent, just a cunt (broadly speaking).


There are a proportion of financially successful people who are sociopathic, I do not doubt that. Although, sociopathy is not really conducive to good money management (Ahem POTUS). But saying it's necessary is probably not true. I for one know a number of successful business people who are actually very nice, and sort of fell into the business aspect. They didn't set out to be 'rich' or whatever, they just found a niche or had a product they liked or wanted to develop, and went out and did it. I would take a very educated guess that this kind of success is far more satisfying than the pure acquisition of wealth in a Gordon Gecko style, hence why those people are never satisfied with the amount of money they have.
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PostPosted: 19:54 - 03 Jan 2020    Post subject: Reply with quote
Some of the questions and tests could be flawed unless they were also meta tests where you had to fail in order to examine how they were marked.

For example in one of the verbal ones it had wine is to drink but that could be read as drink the action or drink as a category changing how you would answer.

The face emotions are the same. How different does the face need to be before it is considered different.

The attention test is really a point and click test which would be affected
by a good mouse or touchscreen and your physical reflexes.
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PostPosted: 12:35 - 06 Jan 2020    Post subject: Reply with quote
So I decided to try again on my work laptop which has a different mouse setup and a screen more suited to the ambient light conditions. I had also slept better and had two cups of tea...

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I also understood the spatial test a bit better before starting (I didn't really read the instructions before) and I have to admit the verbal comprehension may have been a bit skewed by one word I remembered from the last time. The rest is still a valid test, and still rubbish at spatial working memory, despite the brightness thing being better.
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PostPosted: 16:47 - 06 Jan 2020    Post subject: Reply with quote
I'm smart enough to know I don' need no steenkin' intelligence test to tell me I'm thick... Confused
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PostPosted: 20:58 - 06 Jan 2020    Post subject: Reply with quote
chickenstrip wrote:
I'm smart enough to know I don' need no steenkin' intelligence test to tell me I'm thick... Confused


and I don't need one to tell me I'm not..... Cool
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