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I don't believe in the effectiveness of these tests.

and I know it without even trying 😎

The guy shared a test with his wife; how many points did he get?

You're being ridiculous. How can my wife have a boyfriend? She's married. You clearly didn't pass an IQ test...

Don't worry, at least you have a higher IQ than him.

112, it's just okay. It started well, but then there are some rather annoying dependencies. A separate thank you for not showing where I made a mistake later (I definitely made mistakes, at least because I answered randomly a couple of times).

I stopped after ten minutes. That was enough for me to realize the true meaning of the test: only an unreasonable person would waste time on an activity that is simultaneously not very simple, uninteresting, useless, and unpaid, which is what this test is, and the sooner you understand this, the wiser you are.
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I don't believe in the effectiveness of these tests.

Do you think they're underrating?

I think that the ability to imagine what was going on in a person's mind when they drew squares and lines is not an objective indicator of intelligence.

I agree, the options with such patterns are quite debatable. In some cases, it can even happen that a person sees a perfectly reasonable pattern that the author did not anticipate. But, abstracting from the tasks themselves, other factors also play a role. Take, for example, the time limit, where the personality of the person being tested has a significant impact. Someone stubborn might get stuck on one of the tasks for a long time, unwilling to move on to other questions and answer them randomly. Another person, the ticking timer might make nervous, which will lead to making mistakes.

That's the whole point. An attempt to assess immediate cognitive abilities without requiring any erudite knowledge.
And the timer imposes a logical limitation, because the speed of thought, provided it is correct, should directly correlate with intelligence... - I was about to add, but then I saw the footnote. Perhaps it is used to filter out people or programs that click randomly?

In any case, at its current stage of development, humanity has not yet come up with a better way to determine some undoubtedly fictional level of intelligence.

Yes, the reason for including a time limit is clear; it's just not an ideal aspect of the tests. Even if it's not the primary issue, it's influenced by human nature.

I think it's also because, in tests with rewards for quick completion, completing all the simple tasks and skipping the rest can sometimes lead to a higher or equal score compared to someone who solved many more tasks, even if they took more time. That's why the reward was removed, but the time limit was kept.

An attempt to assess immediate cognitive abilities without requiring any erudite knowledge base.

In my opinion, this method is so flawed that it is better to abandon this idea altogether until a better way is found. If IQ remained a very narrow scientific tool that most people hadn't even heard of, then it would still be acceptable, but at the moment it is so hyped as an objective and accurate indicator that it is simply not good enough.

I never liked IQ tests that only involve figures. IMO, they should also include logical problems.