- Idiocy Quotient -
Goddamit!
I'm still finding little blue sparkily squares in my hair from that hair wax of Rose's!
I've washed my hair FOUR fucking times in the past 3 days, and still there are bits in there.
Normally it takes me what, like 6 months or something to wash it that many times!.
I don't have much hair, y'see.
Anyway, yesterday I did a mini IQ test in the 'Body & Soul' supplement of The Times.
It had a 4 page article on 'The Human Mind' that included a lot about Robert Winston [He's such an amazingly groovy guy!].
Here's the test:
1. What number is missing from this sequence?
17, 19, 23, 29, 31, 37, ?, 43
2. What single four-letter word can be attached to the end of the words in the left column and to the beginning of the words in the right column to form six new words?
Wild line After long Night style
3. Which word of four letters could be added to the front of the following words to create other English words? Card, box, code, bag, haste.
4. If AAAC equals 37; BBAA equals 42; and ABBB equals 59, what does ABBC equal?
5. Replace the blanks in the following sentence with three four-letter words, the same four letters must be used for all three words. What are the missing words?
The young man (....) (....) of money but he could not walk away from the (....).
6. If it costs 20p for an orange, 6p for an apple and 28p for a mango, what will a coconut, fig and lettuce cost?
7. Assume you are using a basic calculator and press the numbers in the order shown, using each of the symbols +, -, X, /, once only in this sum, what is the highest number possible?
4 ? 1 ? 9 ? 8 ? 7 equals?
8. What letter is missing in this commonly used sequence?
C V ? N M
Answers
1. 41
2. Life
3. post
4. 71. A equals 2, B equals 19, C equals 31
5. lost, lots, slot
6. coconut 23p, fig 13p, lettuce 17p, (add the alphabetical value of the first and last letters)
7. 97 (4 / 1 + 9 x 8 - 7 = 97)
8. B (the bottom row of the keyboard)
:: If you got four correct answers - very good.
:: If you got five correct answers - excellent.
:: If you got six or more correct answers - Mensa standard.
=D
I got six correct.
But I really didn't like the way they were set out at all!
Question 1: No problems.
Question 2: Took about 30 seconds - as soon as I saw 'Night' I knew it.
Question 3: Took about 3 minutes - eventually realized from the word 'haste'.
Question 4: Took me ages! Cos they didn't set it out as A3C, A2B2, etc. Which is what it should have been. Idiots.
Then I realized that they meant 'A+A+A+C', etc.
Question 5: Took me about 2 minutes - I was thinking about how many words can be made up from the letters of 'lost' and 'lead' the other week =$
Question 6: Didn't get this one - it flummoxed me beyond belief, until I just decided that it was some kind of trick question.
Question 7: Didn't get this one - I worked on it for about 20 mins and then just got more and more tangled up in its complexity and ambiguity =S
For it to make ANY sense at all it needs brackets in it. Fuck that TDAM bullcrap, or whatever it is.
This question sucks to the Nth.
Question 8: Took me 3 seconds - I literally knew it immediately but just had to check that it wasn't something else instead, like a secret code or something.
But yeh, I got 6 of 8.
Apparently I am a MENSA standard =D
Altho I'm really not.
I'm best at maths/algebra/arithmetic, adequate at English/spelling/grammer, very good at logic, and pretty decent at general knowledge.
But it all depends on the luck of the questions.
And the wording of them too, that sometimes throws me.
When I did Anne Robinson's National IQ test thingy, I got something like 110?
I don't like those tests tho. If there are multiple choice answers then it skews the results and adds an element of chaos distribution to them.
People don't have anything to lose by guessing an answer, and so they might score higher than someone who's more intelligent but chose the wrong answer.
And people who have a high intelligence quotient might work out the answer and then get 'tempted' by another (incorrect) answer because it seems more logical.
If they were just asked for the answer without the multi-choice options they would have got it right.
And also becuase of the chronological constraints of broadcasting to the whole nation there is a time limit for each question.
This brings in the variable of working to a deadline under pressure, which has nothing at all to do with intellect.
In the real IQ tests you are allowed as long as u want, even tho there is a recommended time it doesn't matter if you exceed it.
The last thing that alters all the results is language.
In real IQ tests they devise questions to make sure that ur understanding of language doesn't lower your IQ score for some irrelevant reason.
Like if u'r foreign, or u don't understand certain words or phrases.
That would be unfair.
Yeh, so I don't know if these commercialized IQ tests are anything to go by... But I don't want to keep complaining about it cos I still scored quite well in them!
I'm still finding little blue sparkily squares in my hair from that hair wax of Rose's!
I've washed my hair FOUR fucking times in the past 3 days, and still there are bits in there.
Normally it takes me what, like 6 months or something to wash it that many times!.
I don't have much hair, y'see.
Anyway, yesterday I did a mini IQ test in the 'Body & Soul' supplement of The Times.
It had a 4 page article on 'The Human Mind' that included a lot about Robert Winston [He's such an amazingly groovy guy!].
Here's the test:
1. What number is missing from this sequence?
17, 19, 23, 29, 31, 37, ?, 43
2. What single four-letter word can be attached to the end of the words in the left column and to the beginning of the words in the right column to form six new words?
Wild line After long Night style
3. Which word of four letters could be added to the front of the following words to create other English words? Card, box, code, bag, haste.
4. If AAAC equals 37; BBAA equals 42; and ABBB equals 59, what does ABBC equal?
5. Replace the blanks in the following sentence with three four-letter words, the same four letters must be used for all three words. What are the missing words?
The young man (....) (....) of money but he could not walk away from the (....).
6. If it costs 20p for an orange, 6p for an apple and 28p for a mango, what will a coconut, fig and lettuce cost?
7. Assume you are using a basic calculator and press the numbers in the order shown, using each of the symbols +, -, X, /, once only in this sum, what is the highest number possible?
4 ? 1 ? 9 ? 8 ? 7 equals?
8. What letter is missing in this commonly used sequence?
C V ? N M
Answers
1. 41
2. Life
3. post
4. 71. A equals 2, B equals 19, C equals 31
5. lost, lots, slot
6. coconut 23p, fig 13p, lettuce 17p, (add the alphabetical value of the first and last letters)
7. 97 (4 / 1 + 9 x 8 - 7 = 97)
8. B (the bottom row of the keyboard)
:: If you got four correct answers - very good.
:: If you got five correct answers - excellent.
:: If you got six or more correct answers - Mensa standard.
=D
I got six correct.
But I really didn't like the way they were set out at all!
Question 1: No problems.
Question 2: Took about 30 seconds - as soon as I saw 'Night' I knew it.
Question 3: Took about 3 minutes - eventually realized from the word 'haste'.
Question 4: Took me ages! Cos they didn't set it out as A3C, A2B2, etc. Which is what it should have been. Idiots.
Then I realized that they meant 'A+A+A+C', etc.
Question 5: Took me about 2 minutes - I was thinking about how many words can be made up from the letters of 'lost' and 'lead' the other week =$
Question 6: Didn't get this one - it flummoxed me beyond belief, until I just decided that it was some kind of trick question.
Question 7: Didn't get this one - I worked on it for about 20 mins and then just got more and more tangled up in its complexity and ambiguity =S
For it to make ANY sense at all it needs brackets in it. Fuck that TDAM bullcrap, or whatever it is.
This question sucks to the Nth.
Question 8: Took me 3 seconds - I literally knew it immediately but just had to check that it wasn't something else instead, like a secret code or something.
But yeh, I got 6 of 8.
Apparently I am a MENSA standard =D
Altho I'm really not.
I'm best at maths/algebra/arithmetic, adequate at English/spelling/grammer, very good at logic, and pretty decent at general knowledge.
But it all depends on the luck of the questions.
And the wording of them too, that sometimes throws me.
When I did Anne Robinson's National IQ test thingy, I got something like 110?
I don't like those tests tho. If there are multiple choice answers then it skews the results and adds an element of chaos distribution to them.
People don't have anything to lose by guessing an answer, and so they might score higher than someone who's more intelligent but chose the wrong answer.
And people who have a high intelligence quotient might work out the answer and then get 'tempted' by another (incorrect) answer because it seems more logical.
If they were just asked for the answer without the multi-choice options they would have got it right.
And also becuase of the chronological constraints of broadcasting to the whole nation there is a time limit for each question.
This brings in the variable of working to a deadline under pressure, which has nothing at all to do with intellect.
In the real IQ tests you are allowed as long as u want, even tho there is a recommended time it doesn't matter if you exceed it.
The last thing that alters all the results is language.
In real IQ tests they devise questions to make sure that ur understanding of language doesn't lower your IQ score for some irrelevant reason.
Like if u'r foreign, or u don't understand certain words or phrases.
That would be unfair.
Yeh, so I don't know if these commercialized IQ tests are anything to go by... But I don't want to keep complaining about it cos I still scored quite well in them!