Comments on: IQ VS. Intuition

By: Noone

Noone — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 23:55:10 +0000

3/3 , and i barely finished highschool. Never saw questions before. It helps to have time to think them through, though.

By: Charlie

Charlie — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 11:27:13 +0000

3/3 University of New Mexico. Never saw these before but fun to do.

By: Mythili

Mythili — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 09:47:22 +0000

2/3!

By: Therese

Therese — Sun, 25 Sep 2011 12:40:22 +0000

Wonder what the results of question 1 would be if the person would be asked what is the price of the bat? Then the price of the ball Because they are only asked the price of the ball, they focus on a solution that works from the perpsective of the ball and because they don’t consider the bat, they end up with the wrong solution. It’s a matter of perspective. You have to realize that the questions are loaded to cause you to look at them from a perspective likely to cause you to not consider the correct solution.

These are akin to the video’s that ask you how many times x happens in the video and then later ask you to remember a detail that didn’t have anything to do with X. (My favorite is the basketball that is passed around and a person in a gorilla costume runs through the video — many people don’t notice) I don’t know that these kind of questions so much measure intelligence as they do ability to discern that your attention has been focused by the wording on the wrong element of the problem. In short: it’s a trick question, designed to distract through slight of mind

By: Tom

Tom — Sat, 24 Sep 2011 13:12:53 +0000

Question # 1 is bogus. The term “more” or “more than” is too vague and interchangeable with other terms denoting a quantity or difference to be used in problem solving. An illustration of this would be a statement such as -” I have more than a small lead in the race.” I agree with the fellow above, #6. If these types of questions (#1) tell anything at all about thinking skills, then they indicate only that shiftless nerds can get into MIT.

By: Tom

Tom — Sat, 24 Sep 2011 05:05:12 +0000

DeVry Tech. dropout. Zero correct. Hmm.

By: 2for3

2for3 — Sat, 24 Sep 2011 00:49:02 +0000

I missed the widget one. I was thinking because 5 machines make 5 widgets in 5 mins, therefore 1 machine makes 1 widget in 1 min.. damn. Thus, 100 machines would make 100 widgets in 1 min… dumb.

By: someone

someone — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 08:12:54 +0000

@Batty.
LOL. just stick to the explanation of comments #9 and #18.

By: Prachi

Prachi — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 23:49:27 +0000

I got all three right so 3/3 and honestly, I have never seen these questions, does that make me worth MIT I hignly doubt. It is very situation dependent on how you think about the questions and the time you want to spent thinking to solve the problems.

By: WMB

WMB — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 20:38:08 +0000

3/3

Princeton – undergraduate degree

University of Chicago – graduate degree