TOP 2 IQ Percentile Re: [extropy-chat] Seven cents an hour?

[spike]

> bounces at lists.extropy.org] On Behalf Of Adrian Tymes
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> > > Wooohooo!  144.
> >
> > Snap! 144.
> 
> 143 - but I was interrupted with a phone call in the middle of it, and
> I recall that IQ tests do judge based on time.  The response email had
> a link to another IQ test of theirs; I took that uninterrupted, and got
> 147.

I don't know if that one was timed, but it has an
interesting feature: it decides which questions to
give you based on how you do on previous ones.  Recall
that it had four different screens.  The first few
questions were easy, so you got all those right.  Then
it gave you a harder set of questions.  Had you screwed
up on that first set, I imagine it would give you a second
set of easy questions, then your score would have been
lower.  Notice that last set of questions was damn
hard.  

Had the test not had this adaptive feature, it
would have only 20 possible scores.

We could test this notion by intentionally messing up 
the first set of questions.  Did anyone here try that?

spike