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To: Mr. Mojo
the test (as a pure IQ test) is faulty for at least three reasons: 1) It's not timed

This seems to me like a pretty big flaw in this test. After all, if the person who flies through it in five minutes and the person who struggles with it for an hour receive the same score, then how meaningful is that score? My Commodore 64 and my Pentium-powered IBM can both do some pretty impressive math, but I know that my IBM is smarter because it's faster.

67 posted on 06/22/2003 11:56:45 AM PDT by Yardstick
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To: Yardstick; Mr. Mojo
The test is flawed because of the timing issue, but for what it's worth, my score on this test is within 3 points of a real IQ test I took in school.

I'm a "Facts Curator", with an extraordinary vocabulary and "exceptional math skills"(<===that alone tells me the test is flawed). I do seem to have accumulated a bunch of useless trivia over the years.



72 posted on 06/22/2003 1:51:45 PM PDT by wimpycat (Another great tagline coming soon! Brought to you by Acme Builders....)
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