Took the survey yesterday and forgot to comment here afterwards. I chose to cooperate since the small chance of winning a little money mattered less to me than the pleasure I would get though even such a minor show of benevolence. I also have never taken an IQ test, and am glad to see at least a fair number of other people in the comments who have not either.
You wouldn’t necessarily have known you were taking an IQ test. I learned I was administered IQ tests in elementary school only by accident, when I found a summary in my parents’ papers. ‘So’, I thought, ‘that’s why my speech therapist kept asking me questions any fool would know, like the meaning of the word “gyp”.’
Took the survey yesterday and forgot to comment here afterwards. I chose to cooperate since the small chance of winning a little money mattered less to me than the pleasure I would get though even such a minor show of benevolence. I also have never taken an IQ test, and am glad to see at least a fair number of other people in the comments who have not either.
You wouldn’t necessarily have known you were taking an IQ test. I learned I was administered IQ tests in elementary school only by accident, when I found a summary in my parents’ papers. ‘So’, I thought, ‘that’s why my speech therapist kept asking me questions any fool would know, like the meaning of the word “gyp”.’
Apparently even then, little gwern spent all his time searching out data to organize and summarize.