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I don't know what y'all have against the u.

I consistently get 127-128 on those online IQ tests. But I bet 10 of those points are just my multiple choice test taking skills.

But I bet 10 of those points are just my multiple choice test taking skills.

Heh, I have those too. I was both pleased and somewhat horrified in grade 12 when I got 98th percentile on the standardized science test - there was only one test combining physics, chemistry and biology, and I didn't take chemistry or biology in high school at all. I had a great time writing that test. I answered some of the biology questions based on my guesses about Latin grammar.

I am prepared to negotiate with these alleged tiny terrorists.

Never negotiate! Bomb them out of existence with hash-brown munitions!

Let the cookie win!

But I bet 10 of those points are just my multiple choice test taking skills.

Um, but doesn't that show some kind of intelligence, in and of itself? [Edit: maybe not of the kind measured directly in the exam, but still.]

It's like those kids who prepare such sophisticated ways for cheating on exams, and sometimes, they're so original and brilliant in facing these obstacles, they can either learn the material in a much smaller effort, or actually learn it through those preparations already and end up not needing them.

Heh, I have those too. I was both pleased and somewhat horrified in grade 12 when I got 98th percentile on the standardized science test - there was only one test combining physics, chemistry and biology, and I didn't take chemistry or biology in high school at all. I had a great time writing that test. I answered some of the biology questions based on my guesses about Latin grammar.

ouise, I totally had the same experience! (It might have been even the same test.) I did take Grade 11 chem and Grade 12 biology, but I did dismally in both of them, so for Grade 12 I switched to English and History. I got the highest mark in my school for the science standardized test. (99th percentile.) The science nerds were all really pissed off. I also did really well on the math one. Of course, I got 76th percentile on the reading comprehension one and I became an English literature major.

Um, but doesn't that show some kind of intelligence, in and of itself? [Edit: maybe not of the kind measured directly in the exam, but still.]

Well, it's a skill in being to eliminate at least two of four possible choices and then just being lucky with your 50/50 guesses.

The IQ questions that I hate are the ones that are series of numbers and you have to complete the series. I can usually reason through a few, but then my brain gets tired and I guess the rest.

But I bet 10 of those points are just my multiple choice test taking skills.

Me three. I remember my junior year in high school, the year I was struggling through advanced algebra and trig with daily lunchtime tutorials and nightly hourlong weeping fits in order to--just barely--maintain the lowest C- in any math teacher's classes that year. We took a statewide math assessment test, on which I got the highest score in the school and one of the highest in the district. The ONLY thing that test measured in me was my skill at sussing out how multiple choice tests are constructed and what answers the test-writers are looking for.

Didn't stop my trig teacher from scolding me in front of the entire class for obviously not trying and not caring about my actual graded work. Bah.

I don't know what y'all have against the u.

It's just so showy . We are a plain people.

My parents wouldn't show us our IQ scores. All I know is that I'm not as smart as I wish I was. And not as smart as I used to be.

Cosmogirl q & a with Scott Porter.

Non-spoilery.

The IQ questions that I hate are the ones that are series of numbers and you have to complete the series. I can usually reason through a few, but then my brain gets tired and I guess the rest.

Sometimes there's more than one rule to completing several of the series. I was told once about a very brilliant mathematician who got such a question wrong, because he saw a connection inside all the series of numbers, in each one of the choices in a multiple-choice question. And it wasn't because he didn't see the answer that the writers of the question thought of, it was because he saw more (correct) possibilities than they did.