Try this only once and be honest...
This is not a joke, but a true test.
Read the following sentence:
FINISHED FILES ARE THE RESULT OF YEARS OF SCIENTIFIC STUDY COMBINED WITH THE EXPERIENCE OF YEARS.
Now read through the above sentence counting aloud the "F"s as you find them (1...2...etc). Count them ONLY ONCE:
Do not go back and count them again!!!.
OK - GO!
Scroll Down For The Answer...
DON'T CHEAT!!
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There are six F's in the sentence. One of average intelligence finds three of them.
If you spotted four, you're above average.
If you got five, you can turn your nose at most anybody.
If you caught six, you are a genius.
There is no catch. Many people forget the "OF"'s. The human brain tends to see them as V's and not F's. Pretty weird, huh?
Cute, but making a claim like "one of average intelligence..." based on the reading of a single sentence is clearly not defensible. Same with the others.
I scrolled down before taking the test so I didn't get my number.
Yeah, it's a "nest test," and I agree in that it certainly cannot solely measure an individual's intelligence. I for one know I'm NOT a genius (although I am bright!).
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Wouldn't reading with any kind of speed, even for comprehension, necessitate these sorts of linguistic/cognitive shortcuts? I think I'd actually be a little upset if a cursory reading of that sentence instantly revealed all the F's.
as surprising as this might sound, attentional capture through top-down search for a target defined by a conjunction of features has nothing to do with intelligence
Obviously, I got six. I didn't read the sentence...I just looked for "f"s with my finger. It can easily be argued that I am an idiot for doing so because it is designed to make me read the sentence and miss the other "f"s. Because I didn't, I actually fit the bill, closer, for being an idiot because I acted like an idiot while doing the test.
Or this: attention assessment through a top-down information process for a linguistic nuance, is less about cognitive ability and more about testing for the deviation of an indivual from the linguistic nuance....or the invidual's ability to resist the linguistic nuance to arrive at the correct answer.
It was the "of"s? I thought it was "scientific". I'm definitely an idiot.
Boy...
Your way of putting it is worded much better and correct than mine.
I think it's just measuring deviation from a linguistic nuance. But I guess it can be boiled down to something even simpler.
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Last edited by dadudemon on Oct 27th, 2011 at 01:27 AM
as Digi pointed out, it would be ridiculous if, as we read something, we became aware of every individual phoneme, so you broke it down into a visual search task for an item defined by the conjunction of horizontal and vertical lines that comprise an "F".
the people who got less than 6 probably did the verbal task, and that's likely why they didn't see them all.
from the way you described your own performance however, you totally described a visual search rather than anything linguistic.
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a real short IQ test !!
Oct 26th, 2011 02:51 PM
