On Wed, 21 Jul 2010 12:05:03 -0400, Tim Cook wrote:

> 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.

I managed 125, but didn't bother answering the last 3-4 of them since I 
had no idea what the progression was.

Jim

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