• Sailor Sega Saturn@awful.systems
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    3 months ago

    Everyone knows a good intelligence test asks you Raven’s progressive matrices – the one true sign of intelligence – and nothing else

    Edit: I was of course joking, but from my own link:

    The high IQ societies Intertel and the International Society for Philosophical Enquiry (ISPE) accept the RAPM as a qualification for admission,[14][15] and so does the International High IQ Society.[16] The Triple Nine Society used to accept the Advanced Progressive Matrices as one of their admission tests. They still accept a raw score of at least 35 out of 36 on Set II of the RAPM if scored before April 2014.[17]

    Sounds like some pretty depressing societies. Give me a secret cool kids club that’s all about mazes any day of the week. I like mazes.

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      3 months ago

      my brain is generating a Rationalist version of That’s So Raven where instead of psychic powers she scored really high on an online IQ test and constantly updates her Bayesian priors, and I feel like I need to drink this idea out of existence before Yud turns it into an extensive fan fiction

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          3 months ago

          don’t threaten me with a good time

          now, between writing Rationalist Raven and braving the attic in a respirator (I’m terribly allergic to the dust around here) to finally replace my AC’s filters… it could go either way

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          3 months ago

          You could also ask ChatGPT to make it for you. The idea’s complete garbage unworthy of an actual writer’s time, so I’d let it slide in this case

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      3 months ago

      Half of the Finnish Defence Forces aptitude test is just RPM. The other half is a bizarre and inscrutable questionnaire, which includes questions like “is your father a good man” and infamously “would you like to be a florist”.

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          If it were about that, maybe they hadn’t decided I’m NCO material and forced me into a full year of service instead of half.

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        3 months ago

        I’ve had to do a number of “aptitude tests” in conjunction with applying for jobs[1] and RPMs have been a staple.

        1. Swedish Defense Force aptitude test (you kind of stand out as middle aged among all the yoofs taking it)
        2. one for a job at a state-owned enterprise
        3. one for a job at an outfit selling this stuff for other companies[2]

        I never really got a good score on them either!


        [1] I don’t really like this but beggars can’t be choosers

        [2] like I said, beggars can’t be choosers, lucklily I didn’t have to take the job