Every young mans dream.

Yeah, now that I'm older and married, I have to settle for a 96, which is nice in it's own way.

Dude, I had to look that up.

I tried again and it seems O.K.

These are just for fun,anyone is interested in the real score should try with MENSA.

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 once interviewed a guy who displayed his MENSA membership on his CV, I think it went against him to an extent.

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).

As soon as I saw you name on the last post entry I knew you'd have beaten me. http://www.discussworldissues.com/fo...ies/tongue.gif

Couldn't agree more

[QUOTE=NoNameKleenex;287223]..I also think there are different types of intelligence, such as the very book-smart people who have little social skill...QUOTE]

This is what I was talking about on my last comment.


And btw, I think I have a sudoku problem, is like Pringles for me.

Arrrrgh . . . . that game kept me up all night when I first came across it, and I still don't think I've figured even one puzzle out.

Apologies for the drift.

whatpeopleget=whattheysay/2 http://www.discussworldissues.com/fo...lies/smile.gif

I'm a sudoku enemy: where is the interrest? A computer can easily beat every human at this game. The only interrest is to write the software.

137. I was such a Sudoku addict that I had to quit because people were talking..... http://www.discussworldissues.com/fo...nocked_out.gif

I guess some people like the challenge of solving the puzzle themselves http://www.discussworldissues.com/fo...lies/smile.gif

Personally, I don't know which one I would prefer - spending hours trying to solve the puzzle, or be stuck in a bunch of IF statements and infinite loops (my programming is veeerrry rusty, btw).

Ah, to be a young programmer again...

No computer program can beat the game using intelligence, any program will just read a two dimentional array and loop the grid adding numbers progressively towards a result, that is a brute force approach done incredibly fast, the fact that they can do it fast doesn't mean is beating a human at it, on similar clock speeds the human will always come up with the result in a lot less clock cycles.

Anyway, the point is that is a past time some of us enjoy on a subjective level

Tesla was one of the greatest mind,yet he wasn't very social and for that he could not find enough sponsors for his projects.

Also there is a difference between intelligence and gained knowledge.
Not anyone can raise to their potential due to behavior problems or unfortunate circumstances.(wealth or environment)

Your point brings up the can of worms that is the "nature vs. nurture" debate. I don't know if any progress has been made in it, but it's definitely worth considering.

Arrrgh . . .. this forum takes up so much of my work day lol

You're obviously not married or you'd know what a 96 is! Or maybe not long married?

I've been married twice and most recently for 10 years.
I have no idea what 96 is.

It's like 69 but back to back! Should really be two 9's with the second one reversed - but you can't do that on this forum. And not one on top of the other before anyone asks, but side by side.

So, no clever interpreters or Italian tenors (can't remember his name exactly but it's something like Fellat something or other). http://www.discussworldissues.com/fo...ies/smiley.gif

Just sleeping with your backs to each other.