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Have you taken an IQ test? I have. It didn't strike me as a way of finding out much about a person, except perhaps whether they are able to do difficult arithme
by moron 14y ago
Have you taken an IQ test? I have. It didn't strike me as a way of finding out much about a person, except perhaps whether they are able to do difficult arithmetic quickly. Also, people with lots of raw intelligence often find ways to misapply that intelligence in awesomely terrible ways. Smart in the little way, dumb in the big way.
- mgkimsal 14y agoI took a couple a few years ago, and the results roughly matched the test results from 30 years earlier. They weren't exactly the same tests, so the raw score numbers weren't the same, but the percentile number hadn't budged a bit one way or the other. One of the tests had a lot of memorization - given a list of 9 numbers, repeat them backwards. Or 9 letters. Or a combination. Getting read "q9dh73b1wm6" and then having someone expect to hear you say back "6mw1b37hd9q" was quite nerve-wracking. Another test was "say as many names as you can in 30 seconds" (or something like that). Some of the tests appeared really odd, but the test-giver explained the thinking behind some of the questions later, and it was interesting.