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**infarrelisam** · 10-04-2007, 07:04 AM

Interestingly, people in the engineering professions tend to score above average (I hear taxi drivers do well too due to their spatial and orientation abilities). IMHO I think the tests where always biased towards people in technical professions.

I've always had trouble treating these tests as anything more than a fun and challenging brain twister to kill a few minutes, which this one is.

Sort of off topic, but I took a personality psych course in university, and was constantly at odds with the prof because I couldn't see the point in placing numerical values on facets of a person's conciousness. I feel the same way about IQ tests (even though this one was all in fun).

I also think there are different types of intelligence, such as the very book-smart people who have little social skill (or conversely the social butterfly who doesn't know how to complete simple math). I don't know - I think some people put too much emphasis on arbitrary measures of intelligence with no real consideration of the larger picture.

That being said, I really suck at that sudoku game (and Connect Four, come to think of it).

10-04-2007, 07:04 AM	#26
infarrelisam Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 428 Senior Member	Interestingly, people in the engineering professions tend to score above average (I hear taxi drivers do well too due to their spatial and orientation abilities). IMHO I think the tests where always biased towards people in technical professions. I've always had trouble treating these tests as anything more than a fun and challenging brain twister to kill a few minutes, which this one is. Sort of off topic, but I took a personality psych course in university, and was constantly at odds with the prof because I couldn't see the point in placing numerical values on facets of a person's conciousness. I feel the same way about IQ tests (even though this one was all in fun). I also think there are different types of intelligence, such as the very book-smart people who have little social skill (or conversely the social butterfly who doesn't know how to complete simple math). I don't know - I think some people put too much emphasis on arbitrary measures of intelligence with no real consideration of the larger picture. That being said, I really suck at that sudoku game (and Connect Four, come to think of it).
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