NB: For entertainment purposes . I did the short test and long test.Short test first. I am sure it is not a good test as the short test seemed so easy(too easy).
Only done the first one and scored 135 or greater. Really struggled with the first few questions then it became easier.
Had a second go trying to beat the time from my first go. Found it harder, couldn’t answer a couple of questions. New questions came up.
Two issues I can see with it right off the bat are that
- People who get anxiety from being timed (pressure) will have their performance impacted by that factor, since half the page is dedicated to a countdown clock staring you in the face.
- People who struggle with staying focused (such as people with untreated ADHD) will have their performance impacted by that factor.
But the test won’t be able to determine if these factors are present. At best when factoring in the time elapsed vs the number of questions completed, the test could determine only that a person was slow to respond, but not why.
Personally I also find that my mind tends to be pretty dull when I’m not interested in something, but becomes much sharper than usual when I’m very interested in something (which I’ve been told is common for people on the spectrum). Ron’s grandmother and Craig’s father’s mother don’t really catch my interest at all and my mind just sort of went bllleeegghhh when looking at those details from the third question, but of course my brain is all whirring all fast and critically over analyzing the test itself, because I’m a cynical little stinker who likes to pull things apart.
Out of curiosity I answered the first two questions only, and the answers were definitely right as they were very simple questions, but then let the timer expire. So that would mean that I had an accuracy of 100% but was also very slow. The results page told me that my score was 4. Then I took the test again and answered the questions as quickly as I could, but made sure to select a/the wrong answer for every question. So my accuracy was 0% but I went very fast. The results page told me that my score was 4. Did the test for real, completed all answers and scored of 37 / IQ135.
Doing the test for real I also noticed that several of the questions were based on knowledge, not intelligence or even processing speed. For example one would need geography knowledge, and also a vocabulary using such words as “harpsichord” and “anagram” which are not words used in everyday language and might not be known to people who are not well-read.
All around it seems the test is trying to incorporate too many factors at once for the score to mean much.
I agree with the comments about a timed element. I tend not to be a good judge of time and if anything don’t take time to consider my answers for fear of going over time. This is especially true for those questions I can’t think of an easy answer. In that situation I’ll make a quick guess rather than spend time considering my answer.
I did the short test a second time . This time I took about 2.30 minutes longer answering and came out with the same score.
I actually think not having a timer and having to guess when 15 minutes was up would have been more problematic for me;in that I would even more so have made quick guesses at questions I was not sure of.
I am not a good judge of time and tend to overcompensate by very much quickly guessing at questions I am not sure of. This is especially true for logic or shaped based questions. There were no shaped based questions on this one.
Interesting comment. I am not diagnosed with ASD but definitely have traits, though fit NVLD better(also undiagnosed). My thing was not showing much of an interest in things that I was not naturally quite good/good at.
For me personally, it is very difficult to switch from Topic A to Topic B if my mind has latched onto Topic A for whatever mysterious reason. Forcing myself to do so sort of feels like I become a bit retarded when trying to focus on Topic B, since it is difficult to focus at all. I might read a sentence 3 times in a row without fully comprehending it, and meanwhile my mind is still running with stuff from Topic A in the background. But if I’m not focused on anything in particular before I try to focus on Topic B, it’s not quite as bad, even if Topic B bores me to death, although it’s still more difficult.
A sort of humorous example of this from my childhood was that without pause or error, I could list all 150+ pokemon in order, their “energy type”, their attack moves, their evolutions, their card stats (HP, etc), their energy weakness(es) and strength(s), the name of the fictitious land in which they spawn in the fictitious world inside the video game, which version of the video game, the spawn rate, which type of pokeball would be required, etc.
And then I would walk out the door to catch the school bus without my shoes on because I didn’t even notice.