Farmgirl (apologies if this has ever been posted before -- I have not seen it before, and I usually check the forum daily).
Posted by Maccabeus (Member # 3051) on :
How poorly is quite poorly? I got half of the questions right, mostly because of my biological knowledge--I was more likely to get knowledge questions right. A couple of the early measurement questions were very close, albeit because I knew what to expect and deliberately compensated, just not enough.
As for what tastes good together? I don't even know what half of that stuff tastes like .
Also, took another survey. Shockingly, I am apparently a supertaster. And here my family thought I was a picky eater because I didn't taste well enough!
Posted by jehovoid (Member # 2014) on :
13/20
I had to take the one without sounds (I'm assuming it's different). I didn't know all the knowledge ones, was surprised on a few of the optical illusions. Funness.
Posted by Kama (Member # 3022) on :
Yeah, I also only got half of the questions right.
But the taste questions are stupid. caviar tastes terrible, so anything with caviar is inherently a bad taste combination.
Cool test, though Posted by Jenny Gardener (Member # 903) on :
It was rigged. How many people have even TASTED caviar to know whether or not it would go well with white chocolate?
Posted by Javert Hugo (Member # 3980) on :
16/20
Caviar tastes salty and biting, and the white chocolate smooths it out and sweetens it.
Was there any way in the world to state the above without sounding snotty?
[ January 07, 2004, 02:16 PM: Message edited by: Javert Hugo ]
Posted by Maccabeus (Member # 3051) on :
Wordman, the tests are from the UK, so I'm giving them the benefit of the doubt. (I didn't notice that.) They spell some things differently and use expressions we don't. (I was amused at finding "Randy" was not a name in Britain, but a description.)
Could anyone get that nervous system game to work? I could find only three places to put anything, not five, and I wasn't even sure where I was putting things because the object obscured the map beneath it.
[ January 07, 2004, 02:35 PM: Message edited by: Maccabeus ]
Posted by advice for robots (Member # 2544) on :
12 out of 20. I probably got about 5 of them because I just guessed the most improbable one. I did do pretty well on the visual adjustment ones. Maybe I can be a good designer.
Posted by jehovoid (Member # 2014) on :
The next time I hang a picture on a wall, I'll ask you if you think it's straight or not.
Posted by Teshi (Member # 5024) on :
15/20
I didn't get the Godzilla/King Kong one, and some of the more scientific questions. The white chocolate one I guessed on based on what I read on the thread, so that doesn't count. But the pinapple one I got. Sounds like a terrible combination though...
Posted by Da_Goat (Member # 5529) on :
10/20. I agree the caviar question was rigged. They've obviously never had broccoli on white chocolate, or there opinion would be different.
Posted by Farmgirl (Member # 5567) on :
I only got 6 out of 20.
I actually got the white chocolate/cavier one -- kinda a process of elimnation.
I also did well with making the two balls the same size...
But I have astigmatism and can't see a straight line for anything -- so pretty much bombed those.
And I STILL disagree about the octave "c" music one -- that was a trick -- they are two different notes, one octave apart.
Farmgirl
Posted by Kama (Member # 3022) on :
I could probably try white chocolate with brocolli.
But with caviar?!? BLEAH!!!
so I'm giving myself another point for that.
Posted by advice for robots (Member # 2544) on :
Jehovoid, that is actually one of the things I'm good at. Although getting two or more pictures hung side-by-side to line up straight is a hopeless task, because I can't be bothered with details. Go figure.
Posted by Papa Moose (Member # 1992) on :
I got 16/20, but many I simply guessed correctly, and the few I missed were the Godzilla/King Kong (which I feel was not a well-designed question) and some wrong guesses (supertaster, section of the brain, etc.).
The Godzilla/King Kong one seemed to me more like "which portion of the picture is designed to fool your brain" -- and could go any way depending on who did the animation.
As for the octave thing, I think the sounds were exactly the same, but the mind was convinced it was up an octave because it was drawn there by the progression. The waves were probably identical.
--Pop
Posted by Bokonon (Member # 480) on :
13/20
--- Spoilers!
I think the Godzilla/King Kong one was poorly done. I knew it was a trick, but most of the ones I've seen that are like it have the two objects the same size. And since it is an illusion, it's 50/50 anyway (assuming you know it is an illusion). I did better than I thought on the matching stuff (almost exactly on the circles, not quite, but close enough, on the T-lines, and I got the angled one horribly wrong).
A lot of the rest I knew from taking a "Sense & Perception" class as an undergrad.
-Bok
Posted by jeniwren (Member # 2002) on :
11/20
I got the pineapple one right, but only because I really like that combo. Salty and sweet are a really good combo. Last night, we had left over curried chicken, and it went *great* with raisins and chopped apple. Especially the apple. Yum!
I didn't get the spacial judgement ones at the beginning right, though I got the circle one right on. The lining up the line one I didn't understand, and so didn't do it right. I thought they wanted you to line up the base of the lines horizontally.
Fun test, though. Posted by ClaudiaTherese (Member # 923) on :
18/20, yay-hoo
Missed the Godzilla/King Kong question and the one about supertasters. Would've missed the score-the-loud-noises scale if it didn't accept all tries within the specified timeframe (I just don't hear crying babies anymore). Many of the knowledge questions were relevant to my training.
Thank goodness my work PC doesn't have sound. Tone-deaf combined with impending deafness. *wince
[ January 07, 2004, 04:55 PM: Message edited by: ClaudiaTherese ]
Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
Full disclosure: I did not do well.
*POSSIBLE SPOILERS FOLLOW!*
But what an awful hodgepodge of a test! Some of the questions were quite clever. The adjustable optical illusions (which I got 2 of 3) were an entirely new way to look at illusions I'm quite familiar with -- I liked them.
And many of the knowledge questions were interesting, but depended entirely on whether you ever learned that information. That's not a test of your senses; that's a test of knowledge ABOUT the senses. I got most of them, but I cry foul! How do you put a question that assumes you know what the limbic system is in with questions designed to test/fool your senses?
Several of the optical illusions I knew because I've seen them so often -- the Paris one, for example. (Then again, the Fs one gets me every stupid time!)
And some were very poorly phrased. I could tell that the SOUND was "ma" and the lips were moving "na" -- what do you mean, what did she SAY?
I'm familiar with the room optical effect, but I don't know any way to figure it out without stepping back, which was not an option here.
As for the caviar one -- it assumes people have tasted and LIKED caviar. This is hardly a fair assumption!
I think the test gets points for creativity and cleverness; but loses most of them for inconsistency, poor phrasing, and poor question choice.
Now I'm going to try to get a decent score . . . Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
18/20 this time. Interestingly, while most questions were the same, several of the knowledge ones (3, I think) were different.
And I have more complaints.
*MORE SPOILERS!*
I don't get the tile one. I didn't look at the colors, I counted tiles and looked at the overall pattern. Why would shadows affect that?
The sound ordering was dumb. Most of those sounds have ranges, which IRL actually OVERLAP. I was close enough even the first time to get it in time, but I think it's a bad question.
And I know we're PC and all, but don't tell me I was "unlucky"! Tell me I was WRONG! Posted by Raia (Member # 4700) on :
I got 11/20 the first time, and 19/20 the second time!
Posted by Tristan (Member # 1670) on :
Anyone tried the memory test? I managed the one with 20 words, but mis-placed a few in the one with 30. Although I think I'd pass that one if I take a bit longer to memorize. I basically went through the words once trying to connect them to each other. A surprising percentage of the people taking the test seems to pass, though.
Posted by Coccinelle (Member # 5832) on :
I didn't get past the 8 word test the first time around. I liked the memorizing techniques mentioned, I used them and passed on the 10 word test
Posted by Belle (Member # 2314) on :
12/20
Missed all the spacial relation ones, I'm terrible with that.
Got the rank the noises one perfect on the first try. Surprised me.
Posted by Leonide (Member # 4157) on :
11/20
I did the Medium, 10 words memorization test and passed it...failed miserably on the 13 one because i forgot there were thirteen and didn't scroll all the way down. Doh! me
Posted by Beren One Hand (Member # 3403) on :
8/20
I still say white chocolate and bacon go well together.
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