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Re: Quick IQ Test: Delete if not interested...

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Salvador Wilcox (salvador_wilcox)
Fri, 02 Jul 1999 07:16:46 PDT

yes, that's interesting. but what does it have to do with intelligence?
presenting it to your kids the way that it was presented to us will give
them a skewed understanding of intelligence. just my thoughts.

sal

>From: CPKinomi
>To: artsednet.edu
>Subject: Quick IQ Test: Delete if not interested...
>Date: Fri, 2 Jul 1999 08:03:49 EDT
>
>A friend sent this to me and I wanted to share this w/ the group. I am
>thinking of presenting this to a group of students and see how they score.
>
>
>IQ Test
> A quick test of intelligence. Don't cheat! If you do, the test
>will be no fun. I promise, there are no trick to this test.
>
> Read this sentence:
>
> FINISHED FILES ARE THE RE-
> SULT OF YEARS OF SCIENTIF-
> IC STUDY COMBINED WITH
> THE EXPERIENCE OF YEARS.
>
> Now count aloud the F's in that sentence. Count them ONLY ONCE: do
>not go back and count them again.
> See below...
>
> Answer below:
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> ANSWER:
>
> 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?
> It fools almost everybody.

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