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Like an idiot I decide to take one of those online "IQ" pretests from "THE IQ people" because it's cold and I'm bored and needing to kill some time till the clothes come out the dryer. Up comes a question about a number "sequence", I look at the numbers but nothing jumps out at me, matter of fact none of it makes any sense as to a pattern, so I guess. I'm having an "off" day anyway so I just go to the answers. The answer is that ALTERNATING number are going up and down by certain numbers. WTH is this? I've never seen a question on a sequence that has an alternating answer...unless we're talking about a batch fire V engine. By that definition you could come up with all kinds of patterns. I once saw a pattern in a question like that and it was considered the wrong answer. Once question said, "apple is to potato as tomato is to (fill in the black, no multiple choice). The correct answer is raddish because, "they both grow underground (potato and raddish)".

...well.....so does a bunch of other things....:rolleyes:


Next question is, "Sally like the number (don't remember) but not ( another number very close to it), and then again, and then again, and then again. You are then given five numbers and asked which one Sally likes.

Which one...at this moment? Who knows....I'd have to know why she likes them....

Asking me what is different about one group of numbers is one thing, asking me to figure out why a woman likes what she likes....seriously?!

:rolleyes:

I've been married long enough to know "because she just does".....:yesnod:
 
I think the intelligence part comes in when you realize you aren't stupid enough to continue taking some random ridiculous quiz on the interweb....heheheheheh
 
Internet IQ tests are made by maroons I believe.
 
I'm a member of DENSA (Diversely Educated but Not Seriously Affected). :wink-new:
 
MENSA has some of the biggest morons on the net.
 
My father was briefly a member of MENSA back in the mid eighties. He thought they were going to be a society of intelligent people who sat around and discussed philosophy, politics, science, and the like. He quit it after a month because he said they were nothing but a bunch of puffed up egos who liked puzzles. I received an invitation to join in the nineties but after meeting some of them decided my old dad had been right about them.
 
waltesefalcon said:
My father was briefly a member of MENSA back in the mid eighties. He thought they were going to be a society of intelligent people who sat around and discussed philosophy, politics, science, and the like. He quit it after a month because he said they were nothing but a bunch of puffed up egos who liked puzzles. I received an invitation to join in the nineties but after meeting some of them decided my old dad had been right about them.
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Gotta be some kinda pecking order I would imagine. Hard to imagine the "smarter" ones hangin with the just squeaked by "140s"
 
A female classmate and myself were solicited by MENSA while in 8th grade. We were within one point of each other on that silly test and the county "testing authorities" tried to figure out if/how we'd "cheated" the thing. We were across the room from one another when the test was administered but blew the curve off the wall as well as being so close to the same score. It got to a point where we were "interviewed" separately by men in suits and later got an apology and an umbrella each. feh. They weren't supposed to tell us our "score" but because of all the bruhaha we were told. She was the one point higher one.
 
GregW said:
Two soup cans and a piece of string?
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That's for 100 and below. They used morse code by reflecting the sun off the metal that holds the erasers on the pencil and flashed it on the clock face.

Of course they did it in Latin too. :wink:
 
I joined MENSA... Odd story regarding how that came to be. During my time as a copper, I was a member of a squad of uniform officers patrolling on foot in a high crime area, and was often assigned to a particular area that was a little nicer and happened to host the national HQ of British MENSA. I would stop in and visit occasionally, community policing and all that, and just for giggles one day I asked for a sample test.

About a week after I had returned it, I received a letter inviting me to attend a supervised test, so I did and I passed. I have allowed the membership to lapse, but have been thinking of rejoining.
 
kellysguy said:
That's for 100 and below. They used morse code by reflecting the sun off the metal that holds the erasers on the pencil and flashed it on the clock face.

Of course they did it in Latin too. :wink:
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Sussed! After all these years.

In truth, I had three years of Latin in HS... Had to go thru "Latin-I" twice, "Latin-II" disqualified me from the senior "Honor Roll." Th' 'rents were a lot more concerned over it than I was.

I thought Mandarin Chinese would be more useful. But that wasn't offered. Turns out I was correct. :abnormal:
 
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