Or perhaps I should call it a "cognitive abilities test?" You do twelve little tasks that are deceptively simple (it takes about a half an hour all together), and then at the end it tells you about what each test was evaluating and how you compare to everybody else. It can be humbling. 
This series of 12 cognitive tasks will test your planning, reasoning, working memory and attentional abilities to the limit. Brought to you by Cambridge Brain Sciences in collaboration with New Scientist and the Discovery Channel.
Anyway, I learned that I have really terrible visualspatial working memory abilities (so true!
) and am totally awesome at mental rotation. Hooray!
Also, note that two of the tests want you to listen to a beep for a signal to go, but the rest of them can be done with the sound turned off. Heck, you could probably do those two with the sound off anyway. But fyi.
This series of 12 cognitive tasks will test your planning, reasoning, working memory and attentional abilities to the limit. Brought to you by Cambridge Brain Sciences in collaboration with New Scientist and the Discovery Channel.
Anyway, I learned that I have really terrible visualspatial working memory abilities (so true!
) and am totally awesome at mental rotation. Hooray!Also, note that two of the tests want you to listen to a beep for a signal to go, but the rest of them can be done with the sound turned off. Heck, you could probably do those two with the sound off anyway. But fyi.
It was also a terrible idea to take it after a ridiculously long day of work. I could barely remember 8 numbers
12-fold Intelligence Test
- 03/11/2010 02:12:10 AM
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Omg, I'm a moron.
- 03/11/2010 03:08:35 AM
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- 03/11/2010 03:08:35 AM
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We knew all of that about you, nossy. What you get for being such a visible part of the CMB 
*NM*
- 03/11/2010 01:01:42 PM
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*NM*
- 03/11/2010 01:01:42 PM
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these are fascinating. i wonder how i'd do on them with more sleep, no beer, and
- 03/11/2010 07:45:12 AM
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Mental rotation and planning went great, horrible result in the visuospatial thing *NM*
- 03/11/2010 10:42:11 AM
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Fun fun. Let's see.
- 03/11/2010 05:57:08 PM
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You're amazingly consistent... and I too thought I'd have done well on Mental Rotation.
- 03/11/2010 06:21:25 PM
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That was interesting
- 03/11/2010 08:49:15 PM
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