Tuesday, August 08, 2006

Guinea piggery. One of Marjorie's cow orkers who's working on a psych degree gave me an IQ test this evening, and boy is my brain tired. This was the face-to-face interactive test (not an online mouse-clicky thing) and is a lot more full-on than you might expect. There were 14 tests, and most seemed to start out easy, and ended with you feeling stupid. Here's a run-down of the sections, and a representative question from each:

  • Information - "Who was Mahatma Ghandi?"
  • Comprehension - "Why is it necessary for the government to collect taxes?"
  • Arithmetic - "An item is on sale for one third off the original price. Its sale price is $400. What is the original price?"
  • Similarities/Differences - "In what way are a friend and an enemy alike?"
  • Vocabulary - "Define 'tangible'."
  • Digit span - "Repeat these digits backwards: 4,3,6,2,8."
  • Letter-Number Sequencing - "Given this sequence, tell me the digits in order, followed by the letters in order: 5,K,2,P,1,J,9,Q."
  • Performance - "What's missing from this picture?" (A typical picture: two people running along the beach, one leaving no footprints.)
  • Digit Symbol - Coding - Each digit had a code, and I had to draw the code for a sequence of numbers.
  • Block Design - "Which picture completes the block?"
    Matrix Reasoning - "Which picture completes the sequence?"
    Picture Arrangement - "These cards each have a picture on them. Arrange them so the scene makes a logical story."
    Symbol Search - "Circle 'Yes' if one of the two symbols on the left appears in the list of five symbols on the right, 'No' otherwise."
    Object Assembly - "Arrange these puzzle pieces into a coherent picture."

    This after a long day of programming. But it was interesting. I get the results in a week or two.
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