Iron Edge
Iron Edge => Off Topic Discussion => Topic started by: Narco on October 27, 2010, 08:57:16 pm
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Found a link on New Scientist's website, apparently a group of scientists have conducted the ULTIMATE intelligence test. (http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn19592-take-the-ultimate-intelligence-test.html?DCMP=OTC-rss&nsref=online-news)
While I am a bit dubious about how "ultimate" it is, it's certainly very in depth, even gives colourful normal distribution curves for you.
So here it is ladies and gents:
http://cbstrials.com/Open/Default.aspx?B_ID=279
Will certainly be interesting to see what everyone gets, I'll start off (No cheating guys):
1. Visuospatial Working Memory Strategy: 8.0 (top 37% of population)
2. Verbal Reasoning: 15.0 (top 44%)
3. Focused Attention: 50.0 (top 6%)
4. Deductive Reasoning: 11.0 (top 40%)
5. Working Memory: 6.0 (top 41%)
6. Mental Rotation: 67.0 (top 67%)
7. Visual Attention: 147.0 (top 25%)
8. Verbal Working Memory 9.0 (top 14%) EDIT: Finally got this one working
9. Planning: 19.0 (top 59%)
10. Paired Associates: 5.0 (top 50%)
11. Visuospatial Processing: 96.0 (top 3%)
12. Spatial Working Memory: 6.0 (top 59%)
If you do the test the headings will probably make more sense. Also, as the results from the population result in a normal distribution I think its fair to say 50% is average.
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Sounds fucking amazing, will check this out and post results etc...
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I was too tired when I did this :)
And I think most of the tests are bit too easy to practice. You have to get the hang of a lot of them, so Im sure you would be a lot more intelligent on the second try.
1. Visuospatial Working Memory Strategy: 7.0 (top 63% of population)
2. Verbal Reasoning: 16.0 (top 37%)
3. Focused Attention: 37.0 (top 22%)
4. Deductive Reasoning: 14.0 (top 18%)
5. Working Memory: 7.0 (top 17%)
6. Mental Rotation: 60.0 (top 73%)
7. Visual Attention: 139.0 (top 32%)
8. Verbal Working Memory 6 (top 68%)
9. Planning: 47.0 (top 3%)
10. Paired Associates: 4.0 (top 70%)
11. Visuospatial Processing: 63.0 (top 27%)(wasnt wearing glasses)
12. Spatial Working Memory: 8.0 (top 34%)
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1. Visuospatial Working Memory Strategy: 7.0 (top 63% of population)
2. Verbal Reasoning: 13.0 (top 56%)
3. Focused Attention: 44.0 (top 11%)
4. Deductive Reasoning: 11.0 (top 40%)
5. Working Memory: 7.0 (top 17%)
6. Mental Rotation: 98.0 (top 38%)
7. Visual Attention: 156.0 (top 18%)
8. Verbal Working Memory: 6.0 (top 68%)
9. Planning: 18.0 (top 63%)
10. Paired Associates: 6.0 (top 30%)
11. Visuospatial Processing: 83.0 (top 9%)
12. Spatial Working Memory: 8.0 (top 34%)
If calculated correctly, giving me an average of top 37,25%. Not bad I'd say.
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the depressing conclusion for me is that im getting old, my short time memory quite obviously suck -.-
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My excuse is that I've been focused all day and now my concentration is gone! :D
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Grax -- I have issues with my short-term memory too, but I attribute it to the sheer volume of information that I parse :)
It's got to the stage where I will read a figure, alt-tab to type it down, and I've forgotten the number...
I'll take the test tomorrow!
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Did it fucking stoned =p
1. Visuospatial Working Memory Strategy: 8.0 (top 37% of population)
2. Verbal Reasoning: 17.0 (top 32%)
3. Focused Attention: 30.0 (top 37%)
4. Deductive Reasoning: 8.0 (top 67%)
5. Working Memory: 6.0 (top 41%)
6. Mental Rotation: 125.0 (top 17%)
7. Visual Attention: 75.0 (top 90%)
8. Verbal Working Memory: 6.0 (top 68%)
9. Planning: 29.0 (top 29%)
10. Paired Associates: 4.0 (top 70%)
11. Visuospatial Processing: 25 (top 80%) (it hurted my eyez!)
12. Spatial Working Memory: 7.0 (top 46%)
might take the test not stoned see what differences there are.
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Top 90%! Go go!
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Downs maybe? xD
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fun testyo
1. Visuospatial Working Memory Strategy: 9.0 top 17% of population
2. Verbal Reasoning: 22.0 top 10%
3. Focused Attention: 41.0 top 15%
4. Deductive Reasoning: 14.0 top 18%
5. Working Memory: 7.0 top 17%
6. Mental Rotation: 144.0 top 8%
7. Visual Attention: 149.00 top 27%
8. Verbal Working Memory: 8.0 top 28%
9. Planning: 32.0 top 21%
10. Paired Associates: 5.0 top 25%
11. Visuospatial Processing: 99.0 top 3%
12. Spatial Working Memory: 7.0 top 36%
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Damn Lycanus, you're pretty intelligent! 16,5% average. Woah
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funny, im an unemployed leach who still lives with his mother :) or well part time leach recently got a aprt time job lol
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hmpf
1. Visuospatial Working Memory Strategy: 9.0 top 17% of population
2. Verbal Reasoning: 9.0 top 79%
3. Focused Attention: 37.0 top 22%
4. Deductive Reasoning: 11.0 top 40%
5. Working Memory: 8.0 top 5%
6. Mental Rotation: 81.0 top 54%
7. Visual Attention: 157.0 top 17%
8. Verbal Working Memory: 6.0 top 68%
9. Planning: 17.0 top 66%
10. Paired Associates: 5.0 top 50%
11. Visuospatial Processing: 52.0 top 42%
12. Spatial Working Memory: 11.0 top 8%
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Welp
I blame odd sleeping patten ;) Seriously though, hope they release the demographics info they gather from these after they hit a good enough sample size, could be interesting reading going from the questionaire contents afterwards.
1. Visuospatial Working Memory Strategy: 7.5 (top 37% of population)
2. Verbal Reasoning: 14.0 (top 1%)
3. Focused Attention: 29.0 (top 40%)
4. Deductive Reasoning: 13.0 (top 24%)
5. Working Memory: 7.0 (top 17%)
6. Mental Rotation: 98.0 (top 38%)
7. Visual Attention: 157.0 (top 17%)
8. Verbal Working Memory: 9.0 (top 14%)
9. Planning: 22.0 (top 50%)
10. Paired Associates: 6.0 (top 30%)
11. Visuospatial Processing: 85.0 (top 8%)
12. Spatial Working Memory: 10.0 (top 14%)
Really is the kinda stuff you'll excel at if you play brain training games.. reminded me of playing it on the DS quite a bit.
*btw, did anyone else get a bit annoyed at the non-standard behaviour of the clickable options on the red/green test? e.g. it was accepting input on mousedown rather than mouseup... ye olde tenative-hold-down-click-while-thinking boned me a couple of times there. Not to make excuses or anything.
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1. Visuospatial Working Memory Strategy: 10.0 top 6% of population
2. Verbal Reasoning: 19.0 top 21%
3. Focused Attention: 44.0 top 11%
4. Deductive Reasoning: 13.0 top 24%
5. Working Memory: 8.0 top 5%
6. Mental Rotation: 125.0 top 17%
7. Visual Attention: 193.0 top 3%
8. Verbal Working Memory: 9.0 top 14%
9. Planning: 54.0 top 1%
10. Paired Associates: 7.0 top 15%
11. Visuospatial Processing: 81.0 top 10%
12. Spatial Working Memory: 12.0 top 5%
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1. Visuospatial Working Memory Strategy: 8.0 (top 37% of population)
2. Verbal Reasoning: 19.0 (top 21%)
3. Focused Attention: -2.0 (top 96%) Should have read the task, I ended up clicking randomly to figure out what the task was actually about :(
4. Deductive Reasoning: 9.0 (top 58%)
5. Working Memory: 7.0 (top 17%)
6. Mental Rotation: 87.0 (top 48%)
7. Visual Attention: 169.0 (top 10%)
8. Verbal Working Memory: 9.0 (top 14%)
9. Planning: 45.0 (top 4%)
10. Paired Associates: 7.0 (top 15%)
11. Visuospatial Processing: 71.0 (top 18%)
12. Spatial Working Memory: 9.0 (top 39%)
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1. Visuospatial Working Memory Strategy: 7.5 (top 37%)
2. Verbal Reasoning: 23.0 (top 8%)
3. Focused Attention: 33.0 (top 30%)
4. Deductive Reasoning: 18.0 (top 4%)
5. Working Memory: 6.0 (top 41%)
6. Mental Rotation: 112.0 (top 26%)
7. Visual Attention: 111.0 (top 62%)
8. Verbal Working Memory: 6.0 (top 68%)
9. Planning: 20.0 (top 56%)
10. Paired Associates: 5.0 (top 50%)
11. Visuospatial Processing: 65.0 (top 24%)
12. Spatial Working Memory: 9.0 (top 23%)
Silly stupid intelligence tests. I'm especially not convinced by simple memory exercises like 5 (blinking cubes), 8 (numbers), 10 (Pairs). Especially 5 seemed to be very prone to getting "good sequences" one can remember with memory hooks.
Anyone had a bug with 9? Didn't seem to accept the solution in the very first one.
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Does anyone else see the irony in Grilly getting -2.0 for focused attention because he didn't pay attention to what he was supposed to do?
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This test can't be ultimate at all. The real problem of intelligence measurement is conceptualization of intelligence not measuring tools. Although all the measuring tools are best possible ones for the specific working memory tasks and separate from learned knowledge and relatively from culture. There is some evidence of correlation between Working memory and intelligence (afaik IQ) but IQ is a flawed concept anyway. It correlates best with your highschool grades. Also working memory can be improved easily, which kinda undermines its connection with intelligence, one of the subjects almost doubled the amount he can hold in an experiment done in my school. Also all of the tests involve novel information, things that are not related to knowledge. But all of the things we learn in real life involve some form of former knowledge and require you to connect them to each other so probably this test will not be successful in capturing that important element. So people who got low scores shouldbe sad : )
But it definately looks like a better alternative to IQ tests.
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Does anyone else see the irony in Grilly getting -2.0 for focused attention because he didn't pay attention to what he was supposed to do?
lol
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1. Visuospatial Working Memory Strategy: 9.0 (top 16.7%)
2. Verbal Reasoning: 14.0 (top 50.0%)
3. Focused Attention: 12.0 (top 80.0%)
4. Deductive Reasoning: 8.0 (top 66.6%)
5. Working Memory: 5.0 (top 69.8%)
6. Mental Rotation: 11.0 (top 95.9%)
7. Visual Attention: 170.0 (top 9.8%)
8. Verbal Working Memory: 24.0 (top 0.1%)
9. Planning: 36.0 (top 13.4%)
10. Paired Associates: 7.0 (top 15.1%)
11. Visuospatial Processing: 44.0 (top 54.6%)
12. Spatial Working Memory: 8.0 (top 33.7%)
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1. Visuospatial Working Memory Strategy: 8.0 (top 37.3% of population)
2. Verbal Reasoning: 20.0 (top 17%)
3. Focused Attention: 39.0 (top 18.3%)
4. Deductive Reasoning: 12.0 (top 31.8%)
5. Working Memory: 6.0 (top 41.2%)
6. Mental Rotation: 79.0 (top 55.8%)
7. Visual Attention: 210.0 (top 1.1%)
8. Verbal Working Memory: 6.0 (top 68%)
9. Planning: 27.0 (top 34.5%)
10. Paired Associates: 5.0 (top 50%)
11. Visuospatial Processing: 58.0 (top 33.6%)
12. Spatial Working Memory: 9.0 (top 22.8%)
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1. Visuospatial Working Memory Strategy: 8.0 (top 37.3% of the population)
2. Verbal Reasoning: 11.0 (top 68.4% of the population)
3. Focused Attention: 39.0 (top 18.3% of the population)
4. Deductive Reasoning: 11.0 (top 40.2% of the population)
5. Working Memory: 6.0 (top 41.2% of the population)
6. Mental Rotation: 69.0 (top 65.0% of the population)
7. Visual Attention: 156.0 (top 17.8% of the population)
8. Verbal Working Memory: 7.0 (top 47.9% of the population)
9. Planning: 33.0 (top 19.1% of the population)
10. Paired Associates: 3.0 (top 84.9% of the population)
11. Visuospatial Processing: 76.0 (top 13.4% of the population)
12. Spatial Working Memory: 9.0 (top 22.8% of the population)
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Either Rucious has the memory of a savant, or someone cheated on number 8 :P
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That's why I'm in one of the wealthy family in Iraq! (I'm good with numbers, so as in financing!)
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You do realise that remembering a series of numbers (24 numbers in a row, in your case) is a completely different skill to being able to manipulate numbers in a mathematical sense, right?
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Believe me its much harder in business. There is no tolerance in a simple mistake!
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Dont tell me you ever need to remember a 24 digit number in business:P
But its an impressive skill.
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not that much lol, but I carried some cases that has some special 9 digits in it.(was dangerous and risky to put all the money in your car, and pass through the border between Iraq to Turkey! Turkish soldiers are crazy, and dangerous.)
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Are we talking business or more like serbian mafia business?
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I don't know serbian mafia business Oo 'evil'
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That's why I'm in one of the wealthy family in Iraq! (I'm good with numbers, so as in financing!)
You got 2 cammels in a tiny car?
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I don't have any cammels, never had one but ride one in Egypt between t2 big pyramids ;)
P.S: I don't have a car (I'm 23), never had one, I'm on salary of 600pounds each month as a student in Norwich/UK, so don't get the wrong idea of me, that I say I'm rich bastard!
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1. Visuospatial Working Memory Strategy: 9.0 (top 16.7% of population)
2. Verbal Reasoning: 19.0 (top 21.3%)
3. Focused Attention: 25.0 (top 55.2%)
4. Deductive Reasoning: 10.0 (top 49.1%)
5. Working Memory: 8.0 (top 4.8%)
6. Mental Rotation: 98.0 (top 37.7%)
7. Visual Attention: 91.0 (top 80.1%)
8. Verbal Working Memory: 7.0 (top 47.9%)
9. Planning: 22.0 (top 50.0%)
10. Paired Associates: 5.0 (top 50%)
11. Visuospatial Processing: 68.0 (top 21.0%)
12. Spatial Working Memory: 11.0 (top 8.0%)