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offline w M w from London (United Kingdom) on 2009-02-28 05:59 [#02275765]
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these cunts want you to pay 19$ for the solutions
LAZY_TITLE


 

offline Grahf from Manchester (United Kingdom) on 2009-02-28 06:57 [#02275781]
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im not staring at that anymore.


 

offline swift_jams from big sky on 2009-02-28 08:28 [#02275795]
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Woah. I'm working on it.


 

offline BoxBob-K23 from Finland on 2009-02-28 08:36 [#02275797]
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I don't care


 

offline yoyoyoyo from Sweden on 2009-02-28 09:05 [#02275807]
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19$ is the answer


 

offline swift_jams from big sky on 2009-02-28 09:31 [#02275810]
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Does the original problem to be solved state that number 2
is the correct choice? w M James, I'm curious to see the
source of this, please.


 

offline w M w from London (United Kingdom) on 2009-02-28 09:41 [#02275811]
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Yeah it said #2 is correct, then it pissed me off because i
didn't know why it was correct.
Here, but I don't know if it'll give the same questions:
LAZY_TITLE
(just got that link from wikipedia)


 

offline swift_jams from big sky on 2009-02-28 13:36 [#02275905]
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This is excellent, thank you.


 

offline swift_jams from big sky on 2009-02-28 18:57 [#02275988]
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Triangles = negative one, plus signs = +1, and circles = 0?


 

offline swift_jams from big sky on 2009-02-28 18:58 [#02275989]
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So: (+1, +1, +1) + (0, 0, 0) + (-1, -1) = (+1)

(0, 0, 0) + (-1, -1) + (-1, 0, 0) = (-1, -1, -1)

(+1, +1) + (0, 0, 0, 0, 0) + (-1, -1) = none.

Thats not completely right, I feel like I understand, but I
can't put it into words.


 

offline swift_jams from big sky on 2009-02-28 19:01 [#02275991]
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If | means add + means 1, triangle means -1, and o means 0
(or nothing), then:

3 + 0 and 0 + -2 equals 1 + nothing

0 + -2 and 0 + -1 equals 0 + -3

2 + 0 and 0 + -2 equals 0+0

??????

The only problem is that there is no reason to believe that
the third group of shapes is supposed to be the sum of the
first two.

I don't know anymore. MY BRAINZ, MY BRAINNNNNZZ!


 

offline w M w from London (United Kingdom) on 2009-02-28 19:56 [#02276009]
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Ok, I understand what you did there and I guess that could
be the reasoning behind it. It seems dumb that 'nothing' can
be represented by either o or blankness, and in that case
the 'correct' answer could be any number of o's or just a
blank line. Plus... you're just supposed to plug in
arbitrary numbers for all the symbols? (and in like 3
minutes time limit I think per question no less).. I mean
maybe 'triangle' is supposed to equal the number 3,867,321,
etc. Stupid mensa shitheads.


 

offline swift_jams from big sky on 2009-02-28 20:14 [#02276017]
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This is my first time. I'm thankful for the experience
though.


 

offline w M w from London (United Kingdom) on 2009-02-28 20:36 [#02276022]
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I would totally fail an iq test because my neurons use
mayonaise instead of water.


 

offline swift_jams from big sky on 2009-02-28 20:55 [#02276025]
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It's alright. We still love you.


 

offline Zephyr Twin from ΔΔΔ on 2009-03-01 15:37 [#02276222]
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Try this.


 

offline Cliff Glitchard from DEEP DOWN INSIDE on 2009-03-01 16:07 [#02276235]
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i'm drooling

I MUST HAVE SOME. I DEMAND BACONNAISE!


 

offline sneakattack on 2009-03-01 17:02 [#02276267]
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instead of trying to find the correct answer, you can
eliminate the incorrect ones.

in the provided examples, plus always appears left of the
bar, triangle to the right. in the eight provided choice
solutions, only #2 satisfies these constraints.


 

offline Zephyr Twin from ΔΔΔ on 2009-03-01 18:41 [#02276298]
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One day....... it shall be yours.


 

offline w M w from London (United Kingdom) on 2009-03-01 18:50 [#02276301]
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That's it probably, you sneaky bastard. Now hurry and flee
this site while you still can before you get sucked into a
spiral of of neverending pointless replies.


 

offline larn from PLANET E (United Kingdom) on 2009-03-01 20:10 [#02276313]
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i think my brain is about to capsize


 

offline funkadil from United States on 2009-03-01 22:54 [#02276324]
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Well first you have to understand what the problem is
asking. In these types of IQ tests, they want you to decide
what figure should be in the place of the "-". That took me
a while to find out. I was first trying to do some kind of
geometric canceling out thing in my head, which was totally
wrong. The first thing that I notice about the problem is
that the center object is unique from the others in that it
mixes types on the right side of the | . Also in the
answers, how is 1 different from 5? how is 3 different from
7?

I think that this is just a fucking scam, it doesn't make
any sense and any search for bergman iq test just brings up
downloads for windows exes that probably contain malware.
Its really dumb.


 

offline w M w from London (United Kingdom) on 2009-03-01 23:17 [#02276328]
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lol, 1 and 5 are the same. I wouldn't be surprised if
the correct answer was 5 and not 1. Yeah, they're probably
just a bunch of dicks that made up an 'official' test to
charge people to take. And swift jams found a pattern that
makes it 'correct' in a different way; why should that
pattern not be considered right vs. another pattern.
shittitsLAZY_TITLE


 

offline cx from Norway on 2009-03-02 02:30 [#02276334]
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i always feel really stupid when looking at tests like these
:(


 


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