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41ph4num3r1c

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manaman said:
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41ph4num3r1c said:
Questions like those don't really measure intelligence.
Irony said:
But this is hardly an accurate test of intelligence.
For both of you:

Probably because it wasn't and IQ test. It was a test of how smart you are. Two very different things.
How smart I am? No, that was reaction time and trivia retention.

Oxford English dictionary agrees with me:
Pronunciation:/smärt/
adjective
informal
having or showing a quick-witted INTELLIGENCE:if he was that smart he would never have been tricked

Or, you could have used it in the "quick" sense of the word, but as the antonym was "stoopid" I doubt that.
 

manaman

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41ph4num3r1c said:
manaman said:
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41ph4num3r1c said:
Questions like those don't really measure intelligence.
Irony said:
But this is hardly an accurate test of intelligence.
For both of you:

Probably because it wasn't and IQ test. It was a test of how smart you are. Two very different things.
How smart I am? No, that was reaction time and trivia retention.

Oxford English dictionary agrees with me:
Pronunciation:/smärt/
adjective
informal
having or showing a quick-witted INTELLIGENCE:if he was that smart he would never have been tricked

Or, you could have used it in the "quick" sense of the word, but as the antonym was "stoopid" I doubt that.
Smart has far more then one definition, even in the Oxford-English dictionary.

Nice try through.
 
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How in the hell am I going to know where some beer I've never heard of is brewed? As for how smart am I...well, I have no idea to be honest.
 

FortheLegion

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Sacman said:
Dango said:
Sacman said:
Dango said:
Sacman said:
18... I don't perform well under pressure...<.<
*pa pat* There there, it's alright. I got 19. It says I'm smart, but that test really was terribly thought out.
I knew almost all of the answers except the one about lead... There was just too much pressure and I ended up guessing or the timer ran out...<.<
I just chose "PB" because it reminded me of peanut butter.
That's what I picked... was it right?
Pb is indeed Lead

:( i got a 17
I don't like being timed

Yea This test kinda sucked
Pop culture is not my strong point nor does it signify intelligence
 

ethaninja

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Most of those questions were about America. I had no idea :p In the end I gave up and just started randomly clicking. I got 10 right >.<
 

loc978

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manaman said:
loc978 said:
24... but that was ridiculous. Car commercial slogans? Popular music song titles? Seriously?
Oh, and a warning to anyone not from the US: this is yet another one biased against you.
Really it is? Because Mitsubishi is of course a US company, and world war II was fought completely inside the US by US troops only right?

The test is far less biased then you are implying. I can think of only two questions that where biased towards people in the US and these deal with wildly popular icons. There where many more questions that would be far easier if you lived outside the US.
...the only thing about Mitsubishi in there was an ad slogan in english. I don't know if that's biased for any particular country (certainly not Japan. Very few folks there recognize the english slogans that companies stick beneath their kanji/kana slogans), but it's not something that an American would find obscure. World War II is only biased toward nations that were involved in it (and yes, it's drilled into the skulls of kids from the US, UK, Germany, Japan, et al), and the only question regarding it asks what years it took place in. Easy and almost country-neutral.
But the distance between any two US cities, even icons such as New York and LA... measured in miles? Seriously, I've never seen the old Standard system used overseas by anyone not from the US... and I've been around the world a couple times.
 

Hiraeth

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23, I have no idea if I got the American history questions right. And I accidentally clicked beef instead of pork for the Muslim question so I should perhaps have 24.
 

darkfire613

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I got 21 because a bunch of the questions were on subjects I know nothing about.

It doesn't measure true intelligence anyway because this is only memorized facts. The one about which company makes the Evolution car doesn't really have to do with intelligence; it has to do with car knowledge. A true intelligence test would have solutions that can be arrived at through logic and reasoning instead of memorization.
 

Naheal

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Sacman said:
Dango said:
Sacman said:
Dango said:
Sacman said:
18... I don't perform well under pressure...<.<
*pa pat* There there, it's alright. I got 19. It says I'm smart, but that test really was terribly thought out.
I knew almost all of the answers except the one about lead... There was just too much pressure and I ended up guessing or the timer ran out...<.<
I just chose "PB" because it reminded me of peanut butter.
That's what I picked... was it right?
Yes...



Have you taken chemistry?
 

Sacman

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Naheal said:
Sacman said:
Dango said:
Sacman said:
Dango said:
Sacman said:
18... I don't perform well under pressure...<.<
*pa pat* There there, it's alright. I got 19. It says I'm smart, but that test really was terribly thought out.
I knew almost all of the answers except the one about lead... There was just too much pressure and I ended up guessing or the timer ran out...<.<
I just chose "PB" because it reminded me of peanut butter.
That's what I picked... was it right?
Yes...



Have you taken chemistry?
No it isn't required in California...<.<
 

SimuLord

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I got 29, which only serves to point out that I have a freakish sweep of general knowledge and should probably go on Jeopardy.
 

AlwaystheUnlucky

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"I guess we're just smart enough. Smart enough to stay out of trouble, but too dumb to run convenient stores."

-Buddy Cole