They should have a big banner that reads, "Improve your IQ in just five minutes!"

That method also works for trick B-ball shots.

 

They should have a big banner that reads, "Improve your IQ in just five minutes!"

"Or we'll give you your previous IQ back if you're not thoroughly satisfied. No questions asked!"

 

I have wrongly answered a few questions:

Here in any way I would count I have 14 rectangles.
I realized it was wrong because the answer was not in the .............
I put what I found close to 14, ie 16.

I do not know how to solve the problem, but I can guess the answer.
Please explain the logic here.

1-8-27-?-125-216
If we look at rhythm of growth
1->8 increases 8 times
8->27 increases 3.5 times
27->? increases x times
?->125 increases y times
125->216 increases 2 times
I can guess that x and y is between 3.5 and 2 and x>y.

The only matching numbers are 64 and 99 for:
27->? increases 3.5...2 times
But if I choose 99 then it does not satisfy:
?->125 increases 3.5....2 times

Where are the hard questions?

But I think it is not the way to solve this.Please help me.

 

I have little use for IQ tests and scores in general, but my understanding is that any such test (i.e., attempting to measure this nebulous thing called "intelligence" as separate from "education") taken after about sixth grade is just too polluted with things that you have learned irrespective of how intelligent you are to have any meaning.

I think 5th grade was when I took an IQ test. I deduced that the IQ reported was based on your correct answers divided by your chronological age. If I took the same test now, I would have an IQ of about 25.

 

I have wrongly answered a few questions:

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I do not know how to solve the problem, but I can guess the answer.
Please explain the logic here.

1-8-27-?-125-216
If we look at rhythm of growth
1->8 increases 8 times
8->27 increases 3.5 times
27->? increases x times
?->125 increases y times
125->216 increases 2 times
I can guess that x and y is between 3.5 and 2 and x>y.

The only matching numbers are 64 and 99 for:
27->? increases 3.5...2 times
But if I choose 99 then it does not satisfy:
?->125 increases 3.5....2 times



But I think it is not the way to solve this.Please help me.

1^3, 2^3, 3^3, 4^4, 5^5, 6^6

 

I think 5th grade was when I took an IQ test. I deduced that the IQ reported was based on your correct answers divided by your chronological age. If I took the same test now, I would have an IQ of about 25.

I did way too well on a few tests like that in Jr high and life became a living hell after that from it. I nailed the highest IQ in the school in 7th grade easily topping the senior class A++ super nerd.

From there absolutely everyone expected me to perform as well or better. Not my thing being I just don't compete in that way. Come hell or high water you can not force a highly intelligent slacker to rise above their level of contentment. There is no game that can be played to force people like me to be something we do not want to be.

From there until about my senior year I spent most of my school years grounded from everything simply for not having 'good enough' grades or like reasonings.

 

I have wrongly answered a few questions:
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Here in any way I would count I have 14 rectangles.
I realized it was wrong because the answer was not in the .............
I put what I found close to 14, ie 16.

Every rectangle has an upper right corner. There are 10 possible such corners.



Count the number of rectangles for each corner. Add them up.

1: 3
2: 3
3: 1
4: 5
5: 5
6: 3
7: 1
8: 1
9: 2
10: 1

Of course, you can do it using any of the other three possible corner locations as well.

 

wow............................!

 

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I then took the exam again, this time saying that I was a female born on 01 Jan 2000 and answered the 20 questions including the preplanned wrong answers at the pace of one question every 4 seconds. It reported an IQ of 140. I then took the test again, using the same answers and going at the same pace, but this time telling it I was a male born on 01 Jan 2000 and it reported an IQ of 160+.

If you did the experiment properly,
it results that young women are smarter than young boys, because for them the test is harder.

That's what I noticed, when we were younger the girls were smarter than us.

 

From there absolutely everyone expected me to perform as well or better.

Basically the same theory: I heard several times that I would be promoted to the, "gifted" class if only I would do the busy work (homework) instead of just proving I knew the material by acing the tests.

I was correcting my teachers by the time I was seven years old, which demonstrates that I was teaching myself before I was seven. The IQ test I took at 9 years old was already, "tainted" by my experience (as mentioned by WBahn). "School" was so far behind me that I slept through classes because there was nothing to win by arguing with teachers who had a, "curriculum" to teach, and nothing else.

I think it was OBWO who said, "How in the world did I teach myself electronics before the Internet existed?" Same way I did, relentless digging at anything about electronics, trying to read the schematics pasted inside radios, buying any magazine available, buying Heath and Eico kits, then building them, learning how cars were wired, learning how houses were wired, including taking the telephones apart... Do you think they taught that in public school? Not even close! The only educational thing about electronics that I ever found offered by an organization was, "How to wrap coils around a nail to make a magnet". Cub Scout Merit Badge stuff.

I am not here because of school.

 

when we were younger the girls were smarter than us.

They still are, and you will see the proof at your first divorce.

 

and Eico kits, then building them,

Why do not we make a kit for young people with hobbies?

They have Arduino, but we can do something interfacing with Arduino.

 

Basically the same theory: I heard several times that I would be promoted to the, "gifted" class if only I would do the busy work (homework) instead of just proving I knew the material by acing the tests.

I was correcting my teachers by the time I was seven years old, which demonstrates that I was teaching myself before I was seven. The IQ test I took at 9 years old was already, "tainted" by my experience (as mentioned by WBahn). "School" was so far behind me that I slept through classes because there was nothing to win by arguing with teachers who had a, "curriculum" to teach, and nothing else.

I think it was OBWO who said, "How in the world did I teach myself electronics before the Internet existed?" Same way I did, relentless digging at anything about electronics, trying to read the schematics pasted inside radios, buying any magazine available, buying Heath and Eico kits, then building them, learning how cars were wired, learning how houses were wired, including taking the telephones apart... Do you think they taught that in public school? Not even close! The only educational thing about electronics that I ever found offered by an organization was, "How to wrap coils around a nail to make a magnet". Cub Scout Merit Badge stuff.

I am not here because of school.

Likewise... I found primary school to be more of a brain-killer than a source of knowledge...

It wasn't until adulthood that I understood that early schooling is more about learning social skills and instilling a sense of responsibility... which was a job that they also did rather poorly

 

It wasn't until adulthood that I understood that early schooling is more about learning social skills and instilling a sense of responsibility... which was a job that they also did rather poorly

Yep. Every memory I have of that time pretty much showed that crushing those skill developments was the norm and by the looks of the latest generation coming into the world they have succeeded beyond all imaginable reason.

 

Yep. Every memory I have of that time pretty much showed that crushing those skill developments was the norm and by the looks of the latest generation coming into the world they have succeeded beyond all imaginable reason.

One more here. My dominant memory of grade school is of crushing boredom. I distinctly remember a moment in 5th grade when the teacher uttered something that was genuinely new to me. I was stunned to realize I had finally just learned something. I also recall bursting out laughing when our science teacher declared that the planets go around the sun in a clockwise manner. I asked, "When viewed from the north or south?" and laughed again when she claimed it didn't matter. First of many trips to the principal.

My nemesis in 7th grade was a "Social Studies" teacher that had seen my standardized test scores. He demanded that I do better work for the same grade as the other students. I appreciate now that he was trying to challenge me, but setting a different performance bar was the wrong way to do it!

 

I certainly had my share of issues with teachers. In first and second grade there was hardly a day that went by without getting sent to the principal's office and I don't think there was a week that went by without getting a spanking from either the teacher or the principal. But I still learned a lot. The issue was boredom and the classic devil with idle hands scenario. In third grade I didn't go to the office one time -- but I had a teacher that simply made sure that she always gave me more work to do. I was happy as a lark. Forth grade was back to regular visits to the office. Fifth grade wasn't so bad. After that, it was much better. I had big issues with three specific teachers the rest of my time through junior high and high school. Unfortunately, two of them were my 7th and 8th grade English teachers and, as a result, I missed out on learning a lot about grammar that haunts me to this day, though I have learned to largely overcome it.

 

My nemesis in 7th grade was a "Social Studies" teacher that had seen my standardized test scores. He demanded that I do better work for the same grade as the other students. I appreciate now that he was trying to challenge me, but setting a different performance bar was the wrong way to do it!

7th - 10th grade math teachers were my primary issue. Every one of them stupid as a rock and couldn't do basic math to save their lives. The only thing I learned from them is, "You can't teach stupid but stupid can teach."

I had big issues with three specific teachers the rest of my time through junior high and high school. Unfortunately, two of them were my 7th and 8th grade English teachers and, as a result, I missed out on learning a lot about grammar that haunts me to this day, though I have learned to largely overcome it.

Same here. I had two english teachers like that as well. They fit right in with the bad math teachers as being bottom of the barrel people and it showed in their teaching ability or rather lack thereof.

Looking back I had the same basic problems in school as everyone else. Bored to death and stuck in school systems that had no accommodations or allowances for student who were above average.

 

Looking back I had the same basic problems in school as everyone else. Bored to death and stuck in school systems that had no accommodations or allowances for student who were above average.

I'm definitely NOT in that category. My high school (and to a lesser degree my junior high) dealt with above average and below average pretty well. It also dealt nicely with people that were above average in some areas and below average in others.

 

My high school (and to a lesser degree my junior high) dealt with above average and below average pretty well.

Lucky you!

Unlike TCM, I kicked one teacher's intellectual butt and learned my lesson: There is no point in arguing when the only reward for being correct is some kind of punishment and, in my case, the only reward for doing the busy work is more of the same. Kind of like winning the next level of Hell.

As a child of an alcoholic family I was prepared for school before I arrived. The first three rules are: Don't feel, Don't need, and Don't ask. I knew how to be invisible and I knew that pain was temporary, so I waited it out...for 13 years.

 

My favorite memory was fighting with the teacher about a multiple choice test -
"Which coast of Antarctica contains the following geographic features. a) North, b)South, c)East, d)West"

I answered "a) North" for everything. She thought things on the bottom of the page should be the southern coast and, in the left side of the page, the west coast.

I also claimed I needed to know the date and location when a trig teacher was asking us to calculate the length of a shadow made by a 50' flag pole at 3 pm. She couldn't understand why that was important. I used the current date and our current location (and made pretty reasonable estimates). She marked my answer wrong - I was supposed to assume the equinox on the equator (according to her answer).