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Old 08-02-2007, 02:42 PM  
Libertine
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Hmm. Just took the test and indeed, it is bullshit. (I scored 142 on this, so no, I'm not expressing anger over a low score)

The second page asks what "fallacious" means. Vocabulary isn't intelligence, it's vocabulary. There might be a correlation between the two, but vocabulary also indicates ones upbringing and interests - things IQ tests should not test.

Another question asks "if wisdom is knowing what to do, ___ is doing it", giving both "virtue" and "sanity" as possible answers. The answer I presume they're looking for is virtue, but that would only be the correct answer when dealing with ethical dilemmas. Practical dilemmas, on the other hand, may require mere sanity once one knows what to do.

Obviously, the test is filled with bad questions.

Apart from that, the test is way too short to be serious. That goes for all IQ tests (after all, any interesting dilemma will take days, weeks, months or even years to solve), but for this one especially.

There are no questions that warrant even a minute of thought, so this test is completely irrelevant when it comes to the kind of intelligence required to solve more complex problems.

What it all comes down to is that this test is mere entertainment, certainly not science.
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