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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Pie are round and not square.
Missed one because I didn’t read it carefully enough.
Just always remember that IQ test questions are made to be as tricky as possible i.e what looks like a numeric sequence is sometimes alphabetic. And many times a question is hard but becomes easy if worked backwards....i.e the day of the week nonsense question.
Some questions are worked simply by substituting the values in the answer until you see the one that fits. i.e the almost moronically simple apples and bananas Q
Always first eliminate the obviously false answers and then tackle the question in earnest.
In numerical questions always have an eagle eye out for a switch in how one of the factors is expressed...i.e. single shoe vs pairs of shoes in the shoes Q.
My IQ is above the genius level but I still manage to do really stoopid stuff...and I’m FAR from the smartest freeper around here!
But then, FR is where the smart folks all hang out :-)
Sometime they do.
When I took the IQ test in 7th grade I scribbled in the margin how a few questions had more than one correct choice and then chose the one I thought they meant to apply.
No, it means the IQ test in question was poorly constructed.
All terms like ratio MUST be described in the text of the question or the question is faulty.
I helped my college psych prof create an IQ test, then we adjusted the results based on the scores from 3 other tests given to the same group. Our aim was to create an exam that was not biased in re of gender, race or education.
I made certain EVERYTHING was spelled out fully... some of the questions became quite long though.
I dub thee a very stable genius my FRiend :-)
Excellent. A test to find out who has the most patience.
This link confirms the answer.
Not true: They are (deliberately) getting you confused between 14 pairs of shoes and 28 individual shoes.
That’s irrational
I picked “manage” for that one because it is a verb, and the others are nouns.
I was hoping that the answers would be annotated.
I wonder if the reason is that “fedora” comes from a different language, and that the etymological origins of the others are Latin. I should look them up, I guess....
Fedora vs Fedaro perhaps? That one does not look right either. Like the -63 incorrect answer.
Did you count the letters available (20) to get the broccoli letters question? That a fast way when the answers are all listed. .
Mrs Grant.
BTW: No one should feel that they are short on intelligence because they can’t do math well.
To do it well you need to actually enjoy it, when you enjoy it the methods stick with you...if you despise it they simply fall out of your head.
Mathematics, especially advanced math, is something you learn how to use by learning how to apply a series of very simple steps.
The steps to do long-division are not really much simpler than the rules of the calculus. If you can do long-division you could learn calculus if you wanted to...no doubt about it!
The really weird stuff you just get used to, you never actually understand it...seriously! even the usage of i, the square root of -1 is really understood by I’d say less that one percent of mathematicians...and i comes in VERY low on the weirdness scale.
Only original work in math requires genius, almost no practicing mathematician could EVER do original work.
Original breakthrough work in math requires an intellect like Isaac Newton...he created the calculus. It was a monumental achievement! He was likely the smartest man alive at the time. But if you can handle long-division then you can learn how to use the calculus that he created.
Great ideas always seem simple once someone else has thought of them.
Well, my hunch regarding language of origin was incorrect:
aplomb from French
fedora from French
manage from Latin
manual from Old French
Yes, two negatives make a positive; but three rights make a left.
Also, were you told four positives make the teen a negative?
The others are in alphabetical order.
That was my reasoning anyway.
Wish they’d explain their choices. I missed both missing word qs and have no idea why.
Read the question.
It’s “pair.”
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