QuoteOriginally posted by: ppauper<brand I tried to get them all wrong and was told "congratulations, your IQ is 73!";I guess they are congratuling you for still getting 73 even though you can't get any question right, and then you might be tempting to buy their x$ report.If fact it looks like one question is worth 1.725. Hence if you get a monkey randomly responding to the questions, assuming there are four answers possible for each question, the expected result will be around 90 and will make the monkey part of the 74% most intelligent people...

QuoteOriginally posted by: jimmy... will make the monkey part of the 74% most intelligent people...Seems about right.Regards,Niclas

QuoteOriginally posted by: jimmyHence if you get a monkey randomly responding to the questions, assuming there are four answers possible for each question, the expected result will be around 90 and will make the monkey part of the 74% most intelligent people...This is a common fallacy. In practice, even monkeys would tend to answer questions in similar ways - e.g. always pick true or always pick the answer on the left. As such, their scores would be tightly clustered around a mean. It would take a truly exceptional and complex monkey to break out of this pattern favorably.Being random takes work. As shown in voting booths and poker games, the hallmark of stupidity is the inability to discriminate. The stupidest decision maker simply chooses the first answer to every question. If the pattern of correct answers is complex, then you must be complex to have a chance of choosing it.

QuoteOriginally posted by: EarthwormGodIt would take a truly exceptional and complex monkey to break out of this pattern favorably.I just think that's a cool sentence, so I'm letting everyone read it again.

"truly exceptional and complex monkey"aren't we all?"Visionary Philosopher" sounds too much like "permenant underacheiver" to me to be attractive. I'd rather "Scroge McDuck/Mr. Burns-like plutocrat." Do I have to make alower score to get that one? Which one do I aim for then?I got a 140, and am curious to know what I screwed up to get wrong (I want my 144 dammit! I want "Uber-Visionary Philosopher"), but don't wanna pony up the dough to find out.I'll take the other 'outlier' tail tests latter to see if I can score in y'alls range. But I expect I won't so don't anticipate any big-sticker numbers from me in subsequent postings.

QuoteOriginally posted by: James"truly exceptional and complex monkey"aren't we all?"Visionary Philosopher" sounds too much like "permenant underacheiver" to me to be attractive. I'd rather "Scroge McDuck/Mr. Burns-like plutocrat." Do I have to make alower score to get that one? Which one do I aim for then?I think you'll need some kind of catch phrase, an affectation in your speech and a bin full of money. Giants of industry don't get measured, they manufacture the ruler. C. Montgomery Burns commisioned the first IQ test to select leaders for his third spice expedition to Siam. The first two ended in disaster due to poor leadership...others have chalked it up to equipping the fleet with leftover ships from the Crimean War. The reader will be interested to note that the Burns IQ test contained a "calisthenics" section which is conspicuously absent from today's test.

"I think you'll need some kind of catch phrase, an affectation in your speech and a bin full of money."Sounds like I'm doomed to be Bartleby the Scribner or Walter Mitty.The curse of the Pythia at Delos was she could see the Gods, and what they were doing, and know of them enjoying their liberty. Yet she was given only insight and consciousness of their threads, she was not one of them, nor could she take part.