Are you the world's smartest person?

[drummerlsu]

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I don't agree with your interpretation that the answer should be 2 letters. Also, remember that these questions are culturally fair.

Reach you must have not even tried 25 yet.

[Hr2]

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I don't agree with your interpretation that the answer should be 2 letters. Also, remember that these questions are culturally fair.

Reach you must have not even tried 25 yet.

I don't agree it should be 2 letters either, I imagine its more than 2 letters now.

The question is not culturally fair, it definitely refers to the album X&Y, considering the main singer of Coldplay has the last name Martin.

25 was REALLY easy, assuming I got it right.

[Tasselfoot]

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17 is 4 of the symbols in the coverart... assuming that is what they are looking for. *shrugs*

[hi19hi19]

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17 is quite easy after seeing Hr2's post.
At least, that's by far the most logical thing I've seen or though of yet.

That makes like ten or so for me. Some of them are really easy and others are incredibly hard. :/

[Hr2]

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17 is making me think too hard and I think I'm deluding myself. I don't know what our policy on giving speculations is, but I'll try to keep it as vague as possible.

So this code X&Y is in is 5-bit code, but the code on the picture is NOT 5-bit code, it looks more like 4-bit or 8-bit. This is what confuses me. There are so many implications of this too, jeez it could be numbers or letters.

Looking at some of these there are a lot which seem ridiculously easy, so easy that I'm tempted to believe my first impulses are wrong because there is no logic behind them other than history and cultural knowledge.

[Reach]

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I don't agree with your interpretation that the answer should be 2 letters. Also, remember that these questions are culturally fair.

Reach you must have not even tried 25 yet.

No I hadn't tried it. I also had to edit my last post because of a big typo XD

The math and logic questions are simple for me. It's these....word ones that are hard. I think I have 13-14 answers now, but have almost none on the first page other than #1 and 2.

WTF @ the coldplay thing.

Uh yea, a lot of these have cultural bias in them. I don't even listen to coldplay and havn't seen the album cover, how would I know? There are other ones that require outside knowledge to solve as well.

edit: I got 17...cookie ^_^

15 complete, I think I'll do 25 now to top it off at 16.

edit: oh what that took a whole 2 seconds.

[hotti1234]

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my brain hurts O.o

[drummerlsu]

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Ok, they obviously lied when they said they kept the culture to a minimum. I feel bad for complaining about some of Reach's problems after seeing this test. And number 8 looks pretty nasty.

It seems that using a computer program is the easiest way to solve a couple of these.

[T0rajir0u]

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15 complete, I think I'll do 25 now to top it off at 16.

edit: oh what that took a whole 2 seconds.

yeah 25s one of the ridiculously easy ones x.x

this pdf is pointless

[Reach]

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Ok, they obviously lied when they said they kept the culture to a minimum. I feel bad for complaining about some of Reach's problems after seeing this test. And number 8 looks pretty nasty.

It seems that using a computer program is the easiest way to solve a couple of these.

Yes. You should feel bad XD Question 10 I think, is a very very easy version of my bonus question though >.>

Which ones would you need a computer program for? Most of the number/math ones are easy by hand with some pre calculus knowledge. It might help for the table/girls one though (or maybe some of the ones I havn't solved lol)

But I suppose that just goes to show that there is definitely an advantage here if you're knowledgable in mathematics - computer science.


I've also noticed some bias in a couple of the solutions. I've found solid, inrefutable answers under the conditions stated by the question, yet have found more than one answer. So either they are excepting more than 1 answer to some of the questions, which I doubt they are, or this is one of those cases where they want the best answer, aka the answer the test maker solved for, aka where they have derived their definition of intelligence, which stems the inherent flaw of testing IQ.

Has anyone figured out #24?

[Hakulyte]

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Number 25:



Does this makes sense?

[Reach]

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Well, that certainly isn't the answer I got.

[drummerlsu]

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Well the big one I see that a computer would help is 6. 2 isn't difficult, but a program may have been a little faster, at least for me. I haven't really looked into 11, maybe it would help and maybe not.

[Hr2]

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The first thing that sprang to my head was that #24 has each letter as a variable, I don't know if this is right or not. I'm going on vacation and i'm printing this out, maybe do a few of them :P I haven't done much work on them today (none at all actually) and I still haven't figured out 17 which is a damn shame. Any small hints would be appreciated haha.

ps your number 25, its wrong.

If this test is meant to test IQ, it is very wrong. I don't actually believe in the concept of IQ as, for example, my mom is better in me at math and science, but when it comes to business or oratory skills, she has none. In fact, doing these correctly doesn't even prove you're smart, although I'd say that there is a pretty damn good chance you are. It's all really obscure riddle solving, if you're good at riddles you're good at this. I consider this more fun than a true test of intelligence.

We should have a debate about the problems of measuring intelligence accurately.

[T0rajir0u]

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ugh 24 is being such a dicktease

theres a numerical coincidence that could either be meaningless or the key to the problem