Posted on 01/08/2018 1:27:34 PM PST by mairdie
Most adults would like to think school has left them equipped for most things that life throws at them.
But a particularly tricky IQ test has left internet users stumped, pushing their mathematical and linguistic skills to the limit.
Jumping right in at the deep end with a complicated numerical question, the Playbuzz quiz is certainly not for the fainthearted.
Try your hand at the quiz to see how you score, and scroll down to the bottom for answers (no cheating!)
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Agreed.
You are correct -26- -37 = -26 + 37 = 11.
No, it does not mean that they have a low IQ. Many of our students are born with perfectly healthy brain cells, but they are not taught academics.
You are correct. It still does....unless we’re talking Common Core.
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Question 11:
-26 - - 37 the answer is +11
The “right” answer given is incorrect.
Predecrement.
I believe you have to go left on the number line when subtracting...
I thought two negatives equal a positive
The first thing a genius level person realizes is to play society as average to avoid the resentment of others.
That is why smart Dummies books are for dummies.
For some reason (laziness, probably) I focused on how many "c"s were in the initial phrase. Since there was only one answer with 3 "c"s, I was done.
I remember a test I saw years ago which challenged one to count the "f"s in a paragraph. What made it challenging was that all the "f"s had a hard pronunciation except one which was pronounced like "v". People could look at that a long time struggling to get the right answer.
Subtle. Faster than counting to 20 as well.
No, minus a negative is the same as adding a positive. (You can move the -1 multiplier around to make your description work, but its easier to just know the rule. )
“query letter for screenplays”?
what be’s that?
Came out of IBM Research on early retirement. Besides money, they gave us retraining, so I took courses in screenplay writing and editing the scene up in Maine. Wrote my first screenplay by the book and had to come up with a query letter. I printed it on the page at a slant and began the text with “A friend of mine has said that I think at a slant...” The letter got 37 offers to read the screenplay, with 7 offers of representation. Blew my head apart deciding since none were perfect. Went with John Grisham’s NYC book agent, who subcontracted me to Writers & Artists in Hollywood for a 2 year, no way out contract. Screenplays didn’t sell, but it was WILD while it was going on.
I just read it
very nice
Thank you. Very much appreciated. It was a fun challenge to match their dialog styles.
TV scripts are a different animal than movie ones. I did a lot of tricks with this one that involved getting originally written FK scripts and transcribing episodes to compare how the actors modified the scripts into their own voices. Then I worked within the guidelines of the average script sections using the terminology preferred by the production company.
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