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Originally posted by Epona:
I got 132.
Logical reasoning 100 YAY!!
Tanada, I'm not surprised you don't do IQ tests, they are something that Britain and especially the US go nuts over, but the rest of the world actually looked at the scientific debunking of them in the 1970s.
It is just a way of labelling kids to say - you're bright, so we'll spend lots of money on your education, and you're thick so we'll teach you how to put cars together on the cheap.
I have problems with some of the questions. A lot of them are based on general knowledge (otherwise known as trivia) - plant names, city names etc. That tests your recall, not your reasoning.
Also the 'odd one out' questions depend greatly on your outlook and the way you approach the question. Some of them had no correct answer as far as I could see. For example:
Car, Steamboat, Airplane, Bus, Train.
All except car are public transport vehicles
All except steamboat have wheels
Only train uses rails
Only Airplane flies
Only steamboat floats across water
Only steamboat runs on steam
etc. etc. etc. I am sure I could think of a few more odd ones out. My first interpretation was the 'public transport' one - because I live in a country where we have a public transport system and I spend a lot of time using it. Other countries don't have public transport at all, so that would never occur to them. Who is more intelligent? Get my drift?
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I agree, Epona! It didn't look like a sensible test at all, in some areas, and that one is a case in point. I also figured out several ways in which each one differed from the rest, all perfectly logical and reasonable. I plumped for the steamboat in the end because it uses different fuel! But there is no way to check the 'right' answer.
I also scored high on 'pattern recognition - but I have done badly on that in other IQ tests I have taken - and those patterns were SO obvious a baby could have done 'em!
Anyway - I scored 33 on Arithmetic and that HAS to be a first for me! I wouldn't have expected more than about 10 in any other Arithmetic test, lol!
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