On 2010-07-21 11:10, Invisible wrote:
> In addition to confirming that I'm stupid, this test showed me something
> else: Being shown page after page of apparently random collections of
> shapes and being told "there's a pattern here, you're just too stupid to
> see if" is not only extremely demotivating, but I found it to be deeply
> disturbing on a psychological level. It felt like I was losing my mind.
> The lack of order was actually upsetting to me in quite a powerful way.

To be fair, I think the ones I was completely guessing on and managed to 
get right qualifies as dumb luck rather than intelligence/subconsciously 
seeing what the pattern really is.  And that was, like...a lot of the 
ones with the merging/rotating square things at the end.  Seriously, 
what was up with those?

If they'd asked you to actually *explain* what the progression was 
instead of a multiple-guess situation, I'd be screwed.

But look on the bright side; your score of 121 is still quite a bit 
higher than the mean of 100.

--
Tim Cook
http://empyrean.freesitespace.net

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