Online IQ Test

[conuly]

Which of these is not like the others?

Apple
Lime
Orange
Tomato


Well, let's see. The apple is the only fruit with a core, the tomato is the only berry, the lime is the only fruit that's not roughly spherical, the orange is the only fruit without any green on it (no leaves attatched) in the picture. The tomato is the only fruit that is typically used as a vegetable, and it is also the only one that is made of a primary color (the apple is green). The lime is the only fruit without a visible shine, and the only one with a monosyllabic name. The tomato lacks an "e" in its name. I could go on, but I'm bored now.

The whole test is most fucked up. My mom got a Mensa puzzle book once, and I spent a good part of a day noting all the places where, really, their answer was wrong/incomplete because there was more than one right answer to the question. That was fun, if a bit disheartening. Do only conformists join Mensa?

Comments

[dkmnow.livejournal.com]

I once had an employer who told me his "IQ" with the intention if intimidating me. I almost laughed out loud! I quit the job later that same week.

If you're "intelligent" enough to know that intelligence is inherently unquantifiable, then you're too intelligent to be accepted into Mensa!

;-p

[maladaptive.livejournal.com]

Yeah, like my IQ is 145.

You'd think with a happily quantified IQ that high I'd ace my SATs and get out of school with advanced placement classes and nothing but, right?

HA! What a crock of uselessness. But it is an amusingly high number (given that I AM a twit). My parents wanted to know becase they thought knowing would help me in school. Or something. Oi.

[conuly]

*grins* Exactly.

[moggymania.livejournal.com]

From everything I've seen, "pretentious conformists" describes the ones I've met (including the one I'm in a relationship with) perfectly. It can be remarkably frustrating to deal with. :-p

[conuly]

Could be worse. You could be stuck with a whole group of them.... FOREVER!

And not the one you're in love with.

[maladaptive.livejournal.com]

Sounds like my world history AP test.

So many questions had several correct answers it was disgusting. At least if you thought about it. That's what happens when you teach people to think critically. You get noncomformists that forgot what they book told them and try to reason it out.

[conuly]

That's really why multiple choice questions are wrong. Not because they're easy, but because they're hard. In Ideal World, IQ tests wouldn't be multiple choice and there wouldn't be a right answer, people would judged based on how well-thought-out the answer was. But then, where would we be without stupid people taking internet IQ tests?

[joeymew.livejournal.com]

This reminds me of a trivial pursuit question I ran into a few years back. My 9th grade algebra teacher would occasionally ask questions from that game for extra credit points. One of the questions that was asked was something along the lines of 'According to the nursery rhyme, what are little boys made of?' I knew the answer as being snips, snails, and puppy dog tails, but the dickhead of a teacher didn't accept it because the card said the answer was snakes, snails and puppy dog tails. And it pissed me off.

[goddess588.livejournal.com]

It's slugs, snails and puppy dog tails.

[conuly]

But... that's wrong! See, I'd've brought in several copies of mother goose the next day just to make the point.

[meteorie.livejournal.com]

Online IQ tests are worthless.. they'll inflate your scores to make you think you're a genius just so you'll buy the "extended version" of the IQ test.

[eofs.livejournal.com]

I recently tried very hard on an online IQ test and managed to get a 78. I've never heard of anyone getting a middling score though, but I haven't tried either.

[conuly]

Yeah, I kinda guessed that online IQ tests were even less reliable than the real kind.

[marveen.livejournal.com]

Hey, you forgot the part where the tomato is the only one where the seeds are traditionally eaten.

I remember an online test that I took like that--if I recall correctly, the choices were "Deer, mule, ostrich, lion". Well, the mule is the only hybrid and the only domesticated animal, the ostrich is the only biped and the only non-mammal, the lion the only carnivore, the deer the only ruminant, etc....

[conuly]

Gah. Well, little things please little minds.

[velvetchamber.livejournal.com]

Actually oranges and limes are berries too, just the same as bananas are berries and cherries are drupes but not berries.

[conuly]

Um, I'm pretty sure that citrus fruits are a separate category from "berry". I'll look it up.

[dkmnow.livejournal.com]

I once had an employer who told me his "IQ" with the intention if intimidating me. I almost laughed out loud! I quit the job later that same week.

If you're "intelligent" enough to know that intelligence is inherently unquantifiable, then you're too intelligent to be accepted into Mensa!

;-p

[maladaptive.livejournal.com]

Yeah, like my IQ is 145.

You'd think with a happily quantified IQ that high I'd ace my SATs and get out of school with advanced placement classes and nothing but, right?

HA! What a crock of uselessness. But it is an amusingly high number (given that I AM a twit). My parents wanted to know becase they thought knowing would help me in school. Or something. Oi.

[moggymania.livejournal.com]

From everything I've seen, "pretentious conformists" describes the ones I've met (including the one I'm in a relationship with) perfectly. It can be remarkably frustrating to deal with. :-p

[conuly]

Could be worse. You could be stuck with a whole group of them.... FOREVER!

And not the one you're in love with.

[maladaptive.livejournal.com]

Sounds like my world history AP test.

So many questions had several correct answers it was disgusting. At least if you thought about it. That's what happens when you teach people to think critically. You get noncomformists that forgot what they book told them and try to reason it out.

[conuly]

That's really why multiple choice questions are wrong. Not because they're easy, but because they're hard. In Ideal World, IQ tests wouldn't be multiple choice and there wouldn't be a right answer, people would judged based on how well-thought-out the answer was. But then, where would we be without stupid people taking internet IQ tests?

[joeymew.livejournal.com]

This reminds me of a trivial pursuit question I ran into a few years back. My 9th grade algebra teacher would occasionally ask questions from that game for extra credit points. One of the questions that was asked was something along the lines of 'According to the nursery rhyme, what are little boys made of?' I knew the answer as being snips, snails, and puppy dog tails, but the dickhead of a teacher didn't accept it because the card said the answer was snakes, snails and puppy dog tails. And it pissed me off.

[goddess588.livejournal.com]

It's slugs, snails and puppy dog tails.

[meteorie.livejournal.com]

Online IQ tests are worthless.. they'll inflate your scores to make you think you're a genius just so you'll buy the "extended version" of the IQ test.

[eofs.livejournal.com]

I recently tried very hard on an online IQ test and managed to get a 78. I've never heard of anyone getting a middling score though, but I haven't tried either.

[marveen.livejournal.com]

Hey, you forgot the part where the tomato is the only one where the seeds are traditionally eaten.

I remember an online test that I took like that--if I recall correctly, the choices were "Deer, mule, ostrich, lion". Well, the mule is the only hybrid and the only domesticated animal, the ostrich is the only biped and the only non-mammal, the lion the only carnivore, the deer the only ruminant, etc....

[conuly]

Gah. Well, little things please little minds.

[velvetchamber.livejournal.com]

Actually oranges and limes are berries too, just the same as bananas are berries and cherries are drupes but not berries.

[conuly]

Um, I'm pretty sure that citrus fruits are a separate category from "berry". I'll look it up.