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!)
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
I think that’s just the DailyMail writer giving the wrong answer. I took the test at the website and answered 11 and I see no indication in the results that I got a wrong answer.
I missed the one about which two countries fought in the Spanish-American War.
I’m not buying it. I think the whole concept is flawed.
I have trouble with the who is buried in Grant’s Tomb question. I’ll wait for the forensic examination.
Expound on that.
That’s what it said to me but no score.
I thought the answer to that is, “No one.”
That’s what I thought too. 11 on question 11.
The image that always flashes in my mind when I hear Grant’s name is the picture of him sitting on his porch right before he died trying desperately to finish his autobiography as financial protection for his wife.
yup. That’s what my calculator said. -63
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Calculators do not handle double negatives well. :)
My brother was a double Mensa. When we were growing up we all thought that Jim was a bit odd, maybe a tiny bit retarded, today we might say Aspergers. My other brother on the other hand everyone thought was the genius. He got the awards, the scholarships, etc.
When I was in school you’d never see two minus signs next to each other as it would have been considered improper form to write a math problem that way in the first place.
No.
Which is the problem with IQ tests.
Vocabulary is not IQ.
IQ is suppose to be your ability to learn, not a test of what you have learned.
It is how people who showed up as retarded suddenly gain up to 40 points on their IQ tests after being mentored.
They did not suddenly become "smart" they learned the area that the test measured.
What was the logic on the fedora question?
Went to the Daily Mail site to take it. Got 5 wrong but one of their answers is wrong, so got 4 wrong. Didn’t tell me my score. Went to the actual site and plugged in the same answers I wrote the first time, didn’t tell me how many wrong but told me I have a giant genius brain. Take it for what it’s worth.
The issue is, is you use the Windows built-in calculator, the double negative is ignored.
I’m with you - and modern computers prove me right every day. The correct answer due to subtracting a negative is 11.
Because of the metric system?
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