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.
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.
But I bet 10 of those points are just my multiple choice test taking skills.
We probably evolved this skill. Like back in the cavemen days, a cavewoman might be surrounded by four cougars. She might figure that two of the cougars look really strong, healthy and/or hungry, and thus decide to run past one of the remaining two cougars, hoping she will by random chance run by the one that has a stomach ache and is feeling depressed that day....
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.
I've always assumed brilliant mathematicians would have this problem.
I recently took a test for a nursing class (I am not a healthcare professional) for End of Life Nursing Care. I got one question wrong. This is completely test taking skills and the ability to figure out what unknown words mean.
I look at much of multiple choice test taking as acting class. Who do they want me to be? For the driver's license, I can image the pedantic careful and annoying driver they want, and be her for the purposes of the test.
And sometimes you have to work out who they think they are, which translates to how they want to trick you.
When I worked retail, there would be people lined up outside the door at Penney's for our 5 AM opening. It was crazy!
My Pier 1 management experience, let me show you it. I had people pounding on the door at 4:45 a.m. one Black Friday, and we didn't even open until 6. That was also the year of having to physically restrain a guy from coming in to our store on Christmas Eve as I was escorting our last customer out - an hour after we had closed. No one but no one needs overpriced crap from overseas that badly.
All hail online shopping.
