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Repost: And you ask me why I'm Disheartened... | by FNORDer | 2007-05-09 00:23:06 |
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Looking at that list, makes me think: | by klar_at_work | 2007-05-09 00:43:16 |
| Last time I was tested I broke it. |
by FNORDer |
2007-05-09 02:44:43 |
But this was well before everyone else my age had a chance to catch up (8 years old). I was called by the board of studies and told I got one question wrong (out of a 300-item test). Being that it's 15 years between drinks, I don't know what I'd test at, at the moment, and the online sort varies wildly between 115 and 150+. Bearing in mind that most of these are poorly designed (from an academic standpoint) I'm not going to put much stock in them. Though I do know from the samples I took in test design with most of the categories you almost have to crank the difficulty levels up a notch. The only really-troubling one was logic problems (a's are b's etc.) because to me they seemed to have multiple solutions.
I can't afford an IQ test ATM, and I don't actually know anyone doing test development, or taking pre-professional III at the moment (where they get you to administer the WAIS III and learn how to use and interpret it). I'd like to take the Mensa exam when I have the money to spare.
As a couple of examples of memory: Our class experiment for Abnormal Psyc two years ago was a lexical decision task. We were shown a list of 60 words (30 words [forever, carriage, etc.], 30 functional non-words [parang, imbolc, etc.]) 1 at a time for 2 seconds each. The experimental phase consisted of a list of 120 words, the 60 words in the original list plus 30 new words and 30 new low-frequency words. We had to pick which ones were in the original list and which ones weren't. There was zero feedback in the experiment and we had 3 seconds to respond, I scored 119 out of 120 correct. I forget the Mean and SD.
Last year in developmental we had to recall as many memories from age 3 to 7 as possible in 15 minutes and write them down, items which were recalled with help (i.e. being reminded of the memory by family members) were excluded. Of the 28 items I wrote down in the time, none were excluded and I didn't actually manage to get started on age 4. As a result my data was excluded from the final analysis, at 10.5 SD's above the mean for ages 2 and 3 I kinda broke it. The mean age was somewhere in the vicinity of 21.7 so I was only 12 months above the mean age.
So taking unconscious recall and early childhood into account my memory is a turbo-charger on top of my brainpower. My item list recall is actually the same as anyone else's (7+/-2 seems to be some kind of biological limit). |
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Have you emptied out the library yet? | by klar_at_work | 2007-05-09 03:04:13 |
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I have enough of my OWN books | by FNORDer | 2007-05-09 03:24:15 |
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I know that feeling. Getting close to that, myself | by klar_at_work | 2007-05-09 05:03:44 |
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