Dumb enough to take the quiz

[gerisullivan]

Yes, I used to be a good test-taker. But I'm not buying these results.

25/25

I am smarter than 98.05% of the rest of the world.
Find out how smart you are.

I'm not arguing that I correctly answered the 25 quiz questions. I'm arguing that doing so doesn't put me in the top 2% of the smart folks in the world. Not even close.

Then again, it's a meme. Attempting to argue with it is yet another sign of my foolishness.

Comments

dumb enough

[maruad.livejournal.com]

hmmm i got 98.08 %... either a lot of dumb people did this since you, or the time you took to complete it is factored in... mind you I did cheat and look at a calendar to figure out how many months have 30 days. It was just faster than than trying to think after midnight.

Re: dumb enough

[mjlayman.livejournal.com]

There's an awful lot of things I just remember, like the order of the planets, or the order of the keys on the piano, but I always use a mnenomic for this:

Thirty days have September
April, June, and November

[tesla-aldrich.livejournal.com]

And now it's up to 98.19%.

Leaving aside the fact that testing "smarts" is nigh onto impossible, at the very best a perfect score would have to put you in a percentile range, since it's impossible to tell who among all of the perfect-scorers knows the most.

I was amused by the misspellings in the vocabulary questions.

[kip-w.livejournal.com]

I got 99.36, with the exact same number correct. 'Cause boys are smarter than girls, or maybe they just like the cut of my jib. Wait, I know... mankind has gotten stupider since you took the quiz!

[mjlayman.livejournal.com]

I got 25/25, but only 98.02%.

[maruad.livejournal.com]

It may seem odd but I have trouble remembering mnenomics. My head is full of trivia but I seldom know where I have acquired it. It is more difficult for things that I have heard than for things I have seen. Attribution of spoken/heard items has always been difficult for me.

Combine this with a tendancy to come late into a conversation and my minds ability to fill in the missed bits and I have some odd rememberances which can never be attributed.

If I have read something there is a far greater chance I will remember where I read it.

[maruad.livejournal.com]

I have been thinking about the difference in the test results and I wonder if Race and Gender were weighted in the score. I had listed myself as other on the racial section and male on gender. Those who know me would probably have slotted me into Caucasian but I don't think of myself as Caucasian... nor as any specific race and since there was no category for Canadian I had chose other.