A bit the reverse for me! I’m looking at them thinking ‘how on earth did I not see that?‘, and feeling really stupid. I think if someone had said ‘composition of functions’ and ‘motion in reading order’ before the test I’d have got almost all the answers right. I think I had all the necessary tools and failed to see where to use them, which is a pretty good definition of ‘idiot’.
I bet you haven’t come into contact with much of this sort of thing before, and I further bet that if you practised doing this type of test for a while then you’d start to find them very easy.
I’d dispute the test’s claim to be ‘not culturally biased’. Obviously it doesn’t require native-speaker English or literary knowledge, but equally obviously your score will depend heavily on how much you’ve been previously exposed to ideas about symmetries and abstract mathematics.
On the other hand, it seems that you can probably learn all these ideas fairly quickly. So what your score settles down to after long practice may well be both interesting and not-culturally-biased. Some of the puzzles at the end of the test do seem to be tickling the limits of working memory.
I bet you haven’t come into contact with much of this sort of thing before, and I further bet that if you practised doing this type of test for a while then you’d start to find them very easy.
As I said, IIRC such tests are only supposed to be accurate if you hadn’t done them before.
I’d dispute the test’s claim to be ‘not culturally biased’. Obviously it doesn’t require native-speaker English or literary knowledge, but equally obviously your score will depend heavily on how much you’ve been previously exposed to ideas about symmetries and abstract mathematics.
I mentioned that before, but how would you go about designing an IQ test even less culturally biased than that?
A bit the reverse for me! I’m looking at them thinking ‘how on earth did I not see that?‘, and feeling really stupid. I think if someone had said ‘composition of functions’ and ‘motion in reading order’ before the test I’d have got almost all the answers right. I think I had all the necessary tools and failed to see where to use them, which is a pretty good definition of ‘idiot’.
I bet you haven’t come into contact with much of this sort of thing before, and I further bet that if you practised doing this type of test for a while then you’d start to find them very easy.
I’d dispute the test’s claim to be ‘not culturally biased’. Obviously it doesn’t require native-speaker English or literary knowledge, but equally obviously your score will depend heavily on how much you’ve been previously exposed to ideas about symmetries and abstract mathematics.
On the other hand, it seems that you can probably learn all these ideas fairly quickly. So what your score settles down to after long practice may well be both interesting and not-culturally-biased. Some of the puzzles at the end of the test do seem to be tickling the limits of working memory.
As I said, IIRC such tests are only supposed to be accurate if you hadn’t done them before.
I mentioned that before, but how would you go about designing an IQ test even less culturally biased than that?