grady@Apple.COM (Grady Ward) (03/21/88)
The following items have been copied from an homemade untimed IQ test that is used for admittance to some of the highest IQ societies. Please send me your responses and I will publish a summary of them (and any critiques): Analogies 1. Night : Day :: Nocturnal : ? 2. Heel : Achilles :: Box : ? 3. Shoe : Cobbler :: Barrel : ? 4. Winter : Hibernate :: Summer : ? 5. Uncertainty : Heisenberg :: Undecideability : ? 6. Billion : Giga- :: Billionth : ? 7. 1/2 : Semi- :: 1 1/2 : ? 8. Lenin : Pseudonymous :: Leningrad : ? 9. Teeth : Hen :: Nest : ? 10. Pain : Rue :: Bread : ? 11. Feel : Palpate :: Listen : ? 12. Water : Aqueous :: Snow : ? 13. Sea : Littoral :: River : ? 14. Thither : Hither :: Trans- : ? 15. Wide : Narrow :: Brachy- : ? 16. Civil : Papal :: Ambassador : ? 17. Black : Yellow :: Melancholic : ? 18. 4-sided polyhedron : Tetrahedron :: 4-dimensional hypercube : ? 19. God : Theology :: Why, if god exists, there is evil : ? 20. 100 : Percentile :: 9 : ? 21. Logic : Sophistical :: Feast : ? 22. Ruthless : Myrmidon :: Imitative : ? 23. Is : Ought :: Ontology : ? 24. 60 : 59 : Neo- : ? Numerical 37. If the sum of the infinite series 1/2 + 1/4 + 1/8 + ... is 1, what is the sum of the series 1/3 + 1/9 + 1/27 + ... ? 38. There exists a scale for weighing objects. It consists of a lever resting on a fulcrum with weighing pans on each end, equidistant from the fulcrum. Suppose the objects to be weighed range in weight from one pound to one hundred pounds at one-pound intervals: 1, 2, 3, ... 100. After placing one of these objects in either of the two weighing pans, one or more of a set of precalibrated weights are then placed in either or both of the pans until a balance is achieved, thus determining the weight of the object. If the relative positions of the lever, fulcrum, and pans may not be changed and if one may not employ any but the initial set of precalibrated weights to balance an object, what is the minimum number of such precalibrated weights sufficient to bring into balance and of the objects to be weighed? 39. A certain crystal consists of 100,000,000 layers of atoms such that there is one atom in the first layer, 3 in the second, 6 in the third, 10 in the fourth, and so forth. Precisely how many atoms are in the entire crystal? Do not give an approximate answer, and do not give a formula. 40. To the nearest percent the probability that any one person selected at random was born on Monday is 14%. What is the probability to the nearest percent that any of seven persons chosen at random exactly one was born on Monday? Series (which number should come next?) 43. 15 52 99 144 175 180 147 ? 44. 3 23 229 2869 43531 ? 45. 0 5 8 8 2 3 5 2 9 4 ? 46. 14 21 13 2 5 18 0 19 5 18 9 5 ? 47. 6 8 5 8 4 0 7 3 4 6 ? 48. 1 3 8 22 65 209 732 2780 ?
hollombe@ttidca.TTI.COM (The Polymath) (03/24/88)
In article <7743@apple.Apple.Com> grady@apple.UUCP (Grady Ward) writes: >The following items have been copied from an homemade untimed IQ test >that is used for admittance to some of the highest IQ societies. Please send >me your responses and I will publish a summary of them (and any >critiques): There's no such thing as a home made IQ test. What you've presented is a collection of puzzles. They may be of interest and/or amusing to some people, but that's all they are. IQs are measured with respect to the general population. For a test to accomplish this it must be carefully normed on a representative subset of the general population. This process is long, complex, and very expensive. It is not a cottage industry. What you've presented represents only someone's opinion of what might be used to measure intelligence. There's no reason to assume it actually measures any aspect of intelligence at all. Even were that not the case, without a rigorous norming process it can't be said to measure anything with respect to the general population. -- The Polymath (aka: Jerry Hollombe, hollombe@TTI.COM) Illegitimati Nil Citicorp(+)TTI Carborundum 3100 Ocean Park Blvd. (213) 452-9191, x2483 Santa Monica, CA 90405 {csun|philabs|psivax|trwrb}!ttidca!hollombe
gjh@otter.hple.hp.com (Graham Higgins) (03/31/88)
The test doesn't attempt to assess spatial reasoning abilities, and is culture-biased. Cheers, Graham ====== ------------------------------------------------------------------ Graham Higgins @ HP Labs | Phone: (0272) 799910 x 24060 Information Systems Centre | gray@hplb.lp.hp.co.uk Bristol | gray%hplb.uucp@ukc.ac.uk U.K. | gjh%otter@hplabs