A rise, not a raise!

I just took a so-called IQ test which told me that I was underpaid and that I should:

Demand a pay rise while you still have your faculties.

(Via Tom Hamilton, who was told the same thing.)

I can't demand a damned thing -- because I'm self-employed and my faculties wouldn't help me even if I still had them. I don't know how an IQ test is supposed to determine sanity, anyway, and I dislike IQ tests intensely. (Had a bad experience years ago with street scientologists who used to give "FREE IQ TESTS".....)

I did get a bit of a rise out of some of the logically unanswerable questions, though.

posted by Eric on 06.23.05 at 04:33 PM





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A "pay rise", I've never heard that before. That's hilarious.

An employee walks into his boss's office and says: "I've worked hard enough here. I demand a rise."

Boss: "OK, you got it."

Employee walks out, beaming, says to a fellow employee: "Wow, that was easy! He just said 'OK, you got it.'"

The other employee walks in and says: "I, too, want a raise."

Boss: "No, I'm too cheap to give you a raise, but I'll give you a rise instead just like I did the other goof."

As to IQ tests, I never take an IQ test. I don't wanna know how dumb I am. As far as I'm concerned, I don't have an IQ.

But I do love to look at those arrangements of abstract designs they often have, purely for the aesthetic delight of it. I buy IQ test books solely for that purpose.

Well, I had a problem with the shapes which don't reveal what theoretically might be on the other side. I think there's a problem with that part of this test, because you are not given enough facts to determine whether speculation of what is possible is reasonable.

Eric Scheie   ·  June 23, 2005 10:45 PM

I got 22 of 25. There are no unsolvable ones here folks. They are al logical and have an answer. Patience!!! I wuz tired, its late, and I guessed at a couple.

Gene "super genius"... or is that just loony :-)   ·  June 23, 2005 11:25 PM

The test was British, not American, so I'm sure my joke about a "rise" only works here in the States. oh, well, it still is funny here in the States. I got 10 right out of 25. I'm sure I got all those designs in the 3rd part right, and possibly those in the 2nd part right, too, and all the math in the 1st part wrong. I flunked math when I was in school. I only took the test to see if they had good designs (which they did), not to see how dumb I am. They didn't ask any verbal questions. Hmmm.... I don't know how I would have done on those. Don't really care that much. As I said, I don't have an IQ. Anyway, I loved those beautiful designs.

I'm having a fun flame-war in Dean's World with a Richard Bennett.

Sorry, but while the numbers all made sense, some of the geometrical shapes (with sides that cannot be seen) were impossible to speculate about. I answered "COULD BE" -- but I don't think my "COULD BE" answers were all considered correct, because I think the test makes assumptions, and I do not know what those assumptions are. The tension between "symmetry and order" in another portion also bothered me, as there's no way to know what is wanted. There were four questions I could have answered more than one way, and justified my answer. I needed more information. My score was 20, and while I think I know what would have been considered wrong, I couldn't find the answers, and didn't want to waste more time.

Eric Scheie   ·  June 24, 2005 07:36 AM

I got a 17, guessed a lot at the math, and think all the geometric shape questions were answerable, but I would like to see an analysis of what I got wrong--I suspect Eric is right that a good argument can be made for more than one answer in several problems.

byrd   ·  June 24, 2005 05:39 PM


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