Stefan MolyneuxVerified account

Clear bias, have a look at some more questions. Basic literacy and pattern recognition taught through geometry. A test by Western minds for Western minds. https://www.mensa.lu/en/mensa/online-iq-test/online-iq-test.html …

Pattern recognition is a vital part of living, literate or no. Even hunter gatherers need pattern recognition big time for the vital art of tracking game, good tracking is life and death.

Just build a supermarket

Your example reminds me of how @ScottAdamsSays annoys me by stating the use of analogy means the lack of an argument. They are rhetorically useful as propadeutic to thought, and exist on a continuum of false analogy to tautology. @Steve_Sailer

Does any of that mean persuasive?

To me, analogies are to arguments as icing is to cake. They can enhance, but you need the base.

Determining what the test is asking for is already dependent on cultural knowledge: we're supposed to find one, the "best" choice, ? and arrow aren't just shapes but an instruction/information, what they mean. We also have to guess what the test maker considers the best choice.

Mildly ironically, since we have to guess based on how the test maker drew the circles, the choice I'd see as best isn't even part of the options (bottom right triangles should be offset on different axes like the circles are). Anyway, I recommend a good basic text on semiotics.

These questions are biassed against squares.

I hope your being sarcastic. Doesn't matter the shape, it matters whether you can determine which one is like the other. You know, Sesame Street stuff.