Of the 5, I picked the coconut for a) not containing seeds b) being hard and
c) generally not being considered a fruit in common parlance.
AFA IQ tests go...
The do measure some things reasonably accurately. That is, they are a
fairly accurate test of things like visualization skills, mathematical
reasoning, etc. However, they don't measure a person's "intelligence"
overall very well.
I tend to score well on IQ tests (I was tested thoroughly as a child because
I was "gifted") because I am strong in those skills and because I'm a very
good test taker. However, I'm very bad at things like understanding social
orders and pressures. They just don't work well in my brain.
Of course, now we're getting into the problem of questions with "right
answers" vs questions that are highly debatable and opinionated, and how to
test the kinds of intelligence that deal with the latter.
-- Ben Doom
Programmer & General Lackey
Moonbow Software, Inc
: -----Original Message-----
: From: s. isaac dealey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
: Sent: Wednesday, July 16, 2003 2:48 PM
: To: CF-Community
: Subject: RE: RE: procratinating
:
:
: Each question is obviously about 3 pts... give or take... it may
: use a gradient scale so they may not all be worth the same number
: of points, but there weren't 140 questions, so... But then it's a
: fundamental problem with the concept of IQ and IQ tests/testing
: in general. It's comparing a collection of specific skills (those
: used in certain types of games) which have little or nothing to
: do with one another and trying to compare them on the same scale
: so they can cram them all into a single number that in the
: strictest sense has no meaning...
:
: Not to mention...
:
: Which of these 5 doesn't belong: coconut, grape, banana, apple,
: pear ... So is it the grape for its size, the banana for not
: being roundish or the coconut for being a nut? ... And how in the
: world does this have anything to do with measuring intelligence?
: It's a matter of subjective interpretation.
:
: Neil Postman did a good job of dissecting the IQ testing industry
: in the book Technopoly also... He sites leaders in the IQ testing
: industry stating publicly that they don't know what IQ tests
: measure, how they determine values, what those values mean, or
: how they can be applied to things outside the IQ test. In other
: words: "we don't know, we just work here". Must be nice tho, to
: get paid to pull pseudorandom numbers out of your...
:
: Original Message -----------------------
: I dunno. I got a 138, so clearly it's calibrated properly. :-)
:
: I think I'd have done better if I'd really worked at it, but I'm sleepy
: after lunch. :-\
:
:
: -- Ben Doom
: Programmer & General Lackey
: Moonbow Software, Inc
:
: : -----Original Message-----
: : From: Andre Turrettini [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
: : Sent: Wednesday, July 16, 2003 2:27 PM
: : To: CF-Community
: : Subject: RE: procratinating
: :
: :
: : hey!! same score here. I think its cheating.
: : DRE
: :
: : > -----Original Message-----
: : > From: Wayne Putterill [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
: : > Sent: Wednesday, July 16, 2003 11:41 AM
: : > To: CF-Community
: : > Subject: RE: procratinating
: : >
: : >
: : > Exact same score.
: : >
: : > Pity it lies about it being accurate (none are, particularly
: : > ones this short), and doesn't tell you what scale it's using.
: : >
: : > > -----Original Message-----
: : > > From: Dana Tierney [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
: : > > Sent: 16 July 2003 16:59
: : > > To: CF-Community
: : > > Subject: procratinating
: : > >
: : > >
: : > > http://www.emode.com/tests/uiq/
: : > >
: : > > 131 precision processor. Before coffee.
: : > > (wanders off to find some)
: : > >
: : > > Dana
: : > >
: : > > But I don't make films
: : > > But if I did they'd have a samurai - Bare Naked Ladies
: : > >
: : >
: :
:
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