Your IQ?

[Deleted member 8382]

@TJ: but, when did we said that IQ meant smartness or stupidity? When did we said IQ meant life succeed? When did we said IQ meant touching people heart? It's you that confused concepts!

@Benm: I can't see that. what do you mean by "shifting" a position? moving right? that's definitely not what happens there (or I'm blind)

 

[ossumguywill]

IQ is definitely not a test of worth or actual ability... it is a test of thought processes, logic and reasoning, and the density of certain neural pathways. There are more than one way to take an IQ test, and it's not a definitive number to how able you are. Many of the highest IQ people can't operate in daily life because their brain is wired over towards the math, logic, and other such mathematical processes while being completely unable to function due to terrible development in the motor control, frontal lobe, linguistic pathways, memory areas, and much more. IQ is not a number of true "ability", just mathematical intelligence. However, within a certain range these two are often connected.

 

[Tech_Junkie]

I just dont think you can give intellect a number. A true intellect is rounded. I do believe ability plays it's part in a true intellect, as with creativity, nurturing, and environment. How do you put number on those? So you have high levels in 1 or 2 areas, that doesn't mean you are more intelligent than most other people. This is why there is common ground between everyone. Unless there is a learning disability where a person is unable, or unwilling, to progress forward, we all are able to communicate. Do you think Stephen Hawking talks shop with his wife??? I doubt it. LOL Those numbers mean nothing but a maybe.

A savant in the exception to the rule obviously.

 

[photonaholic]

I have always found acute attention to details a sign of a sound brain.

That's the difference between a technician and the person who calls one and pays him/her.

 

[Tech_Junkie]

the person who calls one and pays him/her.

I resemble that remark....

 

[Deleted member 8382]

@TJ: Obviously, logical ability is only measured in these tests, but as I've already said a couple of times here, it has been proven that it's very closely related to general intelligence as a general rule.

 

[Zom-B]

<grandfather story> So I have to disagree about 2 people from the opposite side of the scale cant communicate.

Beside what I said about people lowering themselves in order to communicate with the mainstream, there is also the possibility that you are actually more intelligent than you give yourself credit for. It is a common phenomena that intelligent people underestimate themselves, because they just feel 'themselves' as being normal and often can't do things other people have no problems with (like motor control or recalling history events). As a consequence they think of themselves as actually being more stupid than the rest. This is just a consequence of being really smart but because they don't feel smart themselves. Someone from the outside has to step in and say 'you sir are actually intelligent and you suffer from a distorted self-image'. This is not a fairy-tail because I've been there too, and this friend of mine had it even stronger.

I'll quote a passage from this site:

Unusually intelligent people, probably because they are used to being able to do things well that other people struggle with and have extremely high expectations of themselves, may be especially aware of and self-conscious about their spaces.

The combination of focusing on one's spaces while taking one's dots for granted, perceiving that there are huge numbers of dots that others may have that one does not, and valuing other people's dots more highly than one's own, can lead an extremely intelligent person to feel "dumb" or inadequate.

Add the sense of being different that plagues many gifted people (particularly those at the highest ranges) and the result can be a seriously distorted self-image and very low self esteem. As a brilliant and internationally recognized writer friend of mine told me when I dared to suggest that she was gifted, "Oh, no, I'm not gifted, I'm just weird."

 

[Benm]

@Benm: I can't see that. what do you mean by "shifting" a position? moving right? that's definitely not what happens there (or I'm blind)

The 3 series (rows) are different, look at the picture for the solution of the bottom row. I've marked serveral groups that you can see change and move with colors there. On the top rows i only marked one small set that follows the same rules.

All follow the X-O-A-X-O-A-... pattern change, as well as shifting one position right, carrying over to the next row, and from the bottom right to the top left.

 

[Deleted member 8382]

Oh shit, I didn't the "row jumping part", how the hell couldn't I? It seems so easy now lol xD

@Zom-B: I've met some of those in Mensa, it sounds strange to me that something like that really happened them, but by hearing their stories it seems it really happens...

 

[Benm]

Once you see a pattern explained its often hard to figure out why you missed it. But this IS a tricky question, and i suppose many of the test takers will not see it the first time around.

Personally, i find questions 33 and 35, and to some degree 32 more elusive. 29 is also tricky: its anwer A or E, but which of the two is hard to judge.

 

[Deleted member 8382]

I find that ones easy, #32 is clearly E. It's always the right bottom one which turns the first and the top left one second, just look at all of them as a 4 independent lines.

#33, imagine the half ones as if they were completed, now the direction is always like one vertical one horizontal and one in diagonal and always in that order from left to right. Easy to see now, that the missing one is the vertical which is completed.

#35 the line marks how the image on the left is reflected on the right.

#29 look at how the curved line at the bottom fits only the picture E upper part

 

[Benm]

I agree with your explanations, but these were harder for me to see than the last one... i suppose this varies from person to person. For 32 i was looking at the top line, but that gives the same result.

35 i found tricky because the meaning of the middle column isnt entirely clear. A diagonal line could also mean a 'rotate' instruction. There is no answer that matches this though, as it would result in an arrow at the top of the box, pointing left (vertical mirror image of A). If you treat it like a mirror operation, i suppose you would end up with C, which is at least an option

 

[Deleted member 8382]

but these were harder for me to see than the last one... i suppose this varies from person to person

Obviously, I spent 10 minutes on the last one but solved those you mentioned as fast as the others lol

 

[AbAdd0n]

its interesting how some people can have incredible memory and IQ - 70 and others 140 and almost no memory...

 

[Spyderz20x6]

I got 140 from a different IQ test like a month back.

 

[Glutton]

its interesting how some people can have incredible memory and IQ - 70 and others 140 and almost no memory...

Memory is a funny thing. I would imagine that high IQ scores correlate with better working memory, but they still may have trouble getting explicit memory out of the hippocampus stored into the cortex.